Summary
“The organisation driving the work to discover King David”, in Chapter 12’s words — Elad (Hebrew for “To the City of David”), pioneered by David Be’eri in 1986, presented in Chapter 12 of For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group as the vehicle of Judaization in Silwan, East Jerusalem, under an archaeological claim that Silwan was King David’s city (For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, PDF p.226-228).
Details
- Its website presents “Ir David” as “the actual location of the biblical city of Jerusalem captured by King David over 3,000 years ago”; its international director Doron Spielman argued that because David conquered Jerusalem in 1010 BC it belongs to Jews today (PDF p.226-227).
- The chapter records Be’eri befriending the Abbasi family, learning of the absent brothers, and using the Absentee Property Law from 1991 to take their parts of the family home over twenty years; around the City of David there are 550 security cameras (PDF p.227-228).
- Mahmoud Qaraeen and former Antiquities Authority archaeologist Yonathan Mizrachi state there is no physical evidence King David was on the site (PDF p.227).
Related pages
For Palestine — Essays from the Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture Group, Silwan, Judaization, Absentee Property Law