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004 Did Jew Know?

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Did Jew Know? 004

1. Israel’s Dead Sea is 1,312 feet below sea level.

2. Beelzebub is Hebrew for ‘Lord of the Flies’.

3. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

4. King Hezikiah of Israel built a tunnel to bring water into the city of Jerusalem which helped Judah fend off the siege of the city by the Assyrians in 701 B.C.  It is now called the Siloam Tunnel, and is one of the oldest human structures still in use today.  In Sept. 2003, it became the first structure mentioned in the Bible (II Chronicles 32: 3, 4 and II Kings 20:20) to be confirmed conclusively by archaeologists.  The tunnel has been dated by the carbon-14 method to 700 B. C., using organic material in the plaster used to construct it (which is holding up rather well after nearly 3000 years, it should be noted!!).

5. Scientists have for the first time (July, 2003) harnessed the sun’s energy to kill cancer cells, using little more than  a parabolic mirror and fibre-optic cable. In much the same way as lasers are relied upon to destroy certain tumours, “sunshine surgery” has been shown to destroy living tissue with pinpoint accuracy.  The scientists from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University estimate that the equipment needed for performing  surgery by sunlight would be hundreds of times cheaper than a comparable laser device.  (The Independent 31/07/03; p.5)