The Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday that a 1,400-year- feeble wine press has been discovered in the vicinity of Nahal Sorek, approximately midway between Jerusalem and Ashdod. The authority stated it is one of the biggest ever found in Israel.

The wine press was unearthed throughout a salvage excavation in a region to be used for agricultural farmland by previous citizens of Ganei Tal in Gaza, who were uprooted by the government in the Disengagement of 2005. Their permanent homes are being built nearby,fair outside Kibbutz Chafetz Chaim. The head of the Nahal Sorek Regional Council, Eli Eskozido, said he will ensure the conservation of the site and its opening to the general public.

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