1960 VERY RARE Jewish JERUSALEM PENCILS Israel MASADA MEMORIAL Judaica HEBREW

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1960 VERY RARE Jewish JERUSALEM PENCILS Israel MASADA MEMORIAL Judaica HEBREW:
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DESCRIPTION : Offered here is an ULTRARARE complete , unused, Still inside the originalcardboardholder-An ULTRA RARE Zionist \"MADE in ISRAEL \" package ofTWOPENCILSwhich was manufactured in ISRAEL in the 1960\'s , Propably as a SOUVENIR or COMMEMORATIVE pencils to the HISTORICAL JEWISH HEROISM of MASADAH. The BRAND NAME is \"EFRONOT YERUSHALAIM BE\'AM \" ( JERUSALEM PENCILS LTD ) . In addition to the manufactor LOGO , The pencils carries the famous HEBREW historical phrase \"Masada shall not fall again\" . A nice Jewish Judaica Judaism Hebrew Israeli collectible artifact . It\'s a wooden graphite black pencil. ALL original 2 PENCILS are present UNUSED as issued . Still in their original colored cardboard holder with explanatory HEBREW text . PRISTINE unused condition . ( Pls look at scan for accurate AS IS images ).Pack will be sent inside a protective envelope .Please watch my other listed vintage ISRAEL MADE PENCILS.AUTHENTICITY :Thesepencils isfullyguaranteed ORIGINAL from Ca 1960\'s , NOT a reproduction or immitation,The itemholds alife long GUARANTEE foritsAUTHENTICITY and ORIGINALITY.PAYMENTS : Payment methods accepted : Paypal.SHIPPMENT : Shipp worldwide via registered airmail is $ 12 .Pack will be sent in a special protective rigid sealed packaging. Handling within 3-5 days after payment. Estimated Int\'l duration around 14 days.

Masada (Hebrew מצדה, pronounced Metzada is anancient fortification in the Southern District of Israel, on top of an isolatedrock plateau (akin to a mesa) on the Eastern edge of the Judaean Desert,overlooking the Dead Sea. Herod the Great built palaces for himself on themountain and fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BCE. The Siege of Masada bytroops of the Roman Empire towards the end of the First Jewish–Roman War endedin the mass suicide of the 960 Jewish rebels and their families holed up there.Masada is located 20 kilometres (12mi) east of Arad. Masada is Israel\'smost popular paid tourist attraction. The siege of Masada was among thefinal accords of the Great Jewish Revolt, occurring from 73 to 74 AD on a largehilltop in current-day Israel. The long siege by the troops of the RomanEmpire led to the mass suicide of the Sicariirebels and resident Jewish families of the Masada fortress. The siegewas chronicled by Flavius Josephus, (who did not witness the event), a Jewishrebel leader captured by the Romans, in whose service he became ahistorian. Masada has become a controversial event in Jewish history, on theone hand becoming a place of reverence, a site commemorating fallen ancestorsand their heroic struggle against oppression, and on the other a stark warningagainst radicalism. Almost all historical information about Masada comes fromthe 1st-century Jewish Roman historian Josephus. The site was first fortifiedby Alexander Jannaeus in the first century BCE. Herod the Great captured it inthe power-struggle that followed the death of his father Antipater. It survivedthe siege of the Parthian king Antigonus. In 66 CE, a group of Jewish rebels,the Sicarii, overcame the Roman garrison of Masada with the aid of a ruse.After the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, additional members of theSicarii fled Jerusalem and settled on the mountaintop. According to Josephus,the Sicarii were an extremist Jewish splinter group antagonistic to a largergrouping of Jews referred to as the Zealots, who carried the main burden of therebellion. According to Josephus, the Sicarii based at Masada raided nearbyJewish villages including Ein Gedi, where they massacred 700 women and children.In 73 CE, the Roman governor of Iudaea Lucius Flavius Silva headed the Romanlegion X Fretensis and laid siege to Masada. The Roman legion surroundedMasada, and built a circumvallation wall and then a siege embankment againstthe western face of the plateau.According to Dan Gill,geological investigationsin the early 1990s confirmed earlier observations that the 375-foot(114m) high assault ramp consisted mostly of a natural spur of bedrock.The ramp was complete in the spring of 73, after probably two to three monthsof siege, allowing the Romans to finally breach the wall of the fortress with abattering ram on April 16. Romans took the X Legion and a number of auxiliaryunits and Jewish prisoners of war, totaling some 15,000 troops in order tocrush Jewish resistance at Masada. A giant siege tower with a battering ram wasconstructed and moved laboriously up the completed ramp. The walls of thefortress were breached in 73 CE,According to Josephus, when Roman troopsentered the fortress, they discovered that its 960 inhabitants had set all thebuildings but the food storerooms ablaze and committed mass suicide/killed eachother. Josephus wrote of two stirring speeches that the Sicari leader had madeto convince his fellows to kill themselves.Only two women and five childrenwere found alive It seems safe to assume that Josephus was not an eye witnessto Massada, and his sources were probably secondary.There are significantdiscrepancies between archaeological findings, and Josephus\' writings. Josephusmentions only one of the two palaces that have been excavated, refers only toone fire, while many buildings show fire damage, and claims that 960 peoplewere killed, while only 28 remains of bodies have been found.Archaeology showsthat Josephus\' account is incomplete and inaccurate.The year of the siege ofMasada may have been 73 or 74 CE Masada was last occupied during the Byzantineperiod, when a small church was established at the site.