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Israel's Culture Minister Lights Hanukkah Candles at City of David in Jerusalem Where "My Forefathers Walked 2,000 Years Ago"
(Jerusalem Post) Daniel K. Eisenbud - Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat lit a hanukkiah on Tuesday at the City of David National Park archeological site to unveil a restored 2,000-year-old road leading to the Western Wall. "Mr. President Barack Obama, I am standing here, on Hanukkah, on the same road on which my forefathers walked 2,000 years ago," said Regev. "No resolution in any international forum is as strong as the steadfast stones on this street....No other people in the world has such a connection and link to their land." The ceremony, initiated to officially begin united Jerusalem's 50th year celebrations, also featured rare relics, including millennia-old ballista balls, jugs and jewelry discovered by archeologists who excavated the once well-travelled road during the Second Temple period.