PELONI: Our past is etched into the very land we walk upon and by the hands of nonother than our own forefathers, and the record of this revelation lies entrusted by time to the ground on which footfall drop with each step we take. Reflecting upon this fact, I am often reminded of the passage by Yeats which states : “Tread softly because you tread on my dreams,” but in Israel such dreams are fashioned around our very connection to the land, held safe in perpetuity by the debris of millennia, surviving disasters, wars and cataclysms. Hence, the majority threat which they face is not that someone might tread not too harshly, but that the land should be cast into the hands of our enemies who have seen fit to destroy the record of our history rather than to treat it with the care and consideration which such artifacts demand upon their discovery.
Israeli archaeologists uncover a 300-meter section of an ancient water system dating to the Hasmonean period, revealing how engineers transported spring water over 21 kilometers using gravity alone.
By: TheJ.ca Staff | TheJ.ca| October 15, 2026
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Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable 300-meter section of an ancient aqueduct that supplied water to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount about 2,000 years ago, revealing an extraordinary feat of Jewish engineering from the Hasmonean period.
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