Visit to Israel 🇮🇱 Day 11 Jerusalem Israel Museum Zedekiah Caves

On this day, Armando stayed in the Hotel for business meetings while Paula went to visit the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
The Israel Museum is the largest cultural institution in the State of Israel and is ranked among the world’s leading art and archaeology museums. Founded in 1965, the Museum houses encyclopedic collections, including works dating from prehistory to the present day, in its Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Jewish Art and Life Wings, and features the most extensive holdings of biblical and Holy Land archaeology in the world.
Among the highlights of the Museum’s original campus is the Shrine of the Book, designed by Armand Bartos and Frederick Kiesler, which houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest biblical manuscripts in the world, as well as rare early medieval biblical manuscripts. Adjacent to the Shrine is the Model of Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period, which reconstructs the topography and architectural character of the city as it was prior to its destruction by the Romans in 66 CE, and provides historical context to the Shrine’s presentation of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
As the fragility of the scrolls makes it impossible to display all on a continuous basis, a system of rotation is used. After a scroll has been exhibited for 3–6 months, it is removed from its showcase and placed temporarily in a special storeroom, where it "rests" from exposure. The museum also holds other rare ancient manuscripts and displays the Aleppo Codex, which is from the 10th-century and is believed to be the oldest Bible codex in Hebrew.
Paula was very impressed to learn about the influence of the Jewish diaspora from Portugal and Spain.
The interior of a synagogue from Suriname, a typical example of Spanish and Portuguese synagogues in the New World.
The Shrine of the Book houses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest biblical manuscripts in the world, as well as rare early medieval biblical manuscripts. The scrolls were discovered in 1947–56 in 11 caves in and around the Wadi Qumran.
In the evening we had an event at the Zedekiah Caves in Jerusalem.
We heard the history of the Caves, an ancient quarry rediscovered by a dog and claimed by biblical kings, a German cult, and the Freemasons that has been a center of legend and ceremony for thousands of years.

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