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So here we are in Magdala.

Behind me are the excavations of the ancient harbour of that first

century Jewish town right by the Sea of Galley. As you can see, the waters of the Sea of Galley went way down. This is definitely a year of drought.

We didn't get enough rain in the last several years, and the Sea of Galley went down,

and that of course throws me back to the time when in 1986 two brothers

walked right here by the shores of the sea of Gally between Magdala and Geneserate and Genesar with the hope that they'll find a

treasure one day and that day was their day definitely they saw a Roman nail

and another one and another one and then they saw a piece of wood.

They clean it up and they saw that it's part of a boat.

They realized that it's a race against time right now.

They turned to authorities, to El Al, to the Air Force.

They needed some help to somehow recover that amazing

ancient first century wooden boat from the mud right here by the shore of the sea of

galley and to bring it to a safe haven. Of course the only way to get the boat from where it was was to dig a channel from where the boat was to the sea of galley and once the water came the boat was coming out of its watery grave and managed to float once again after 2,000 years on the same waters of the sea of galley.

The interesting thing is that right behind me in this

harbor we found a beautiful mosaic that shows what a fishing boat from the

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