BUS 19
This actual bus was blown up January 19, 2004, in Jerusalem, Israel by a suicide bomber. Eleven people were killed; fifty, injured.
JACFI and The Jerusalem Connection sponsored a tour of this bus throughout the Hampton Roads area: World Outreach Worship Center in Denbigh; Kempsville Presbyterian Church in Virginia Beach; Old Dominion University in Norfolk.
Dr. Gabriel Barkay visits Temple Israel.
Gabriel Barkay is a professor of Biblical archeology at Bar Ilan University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His academic areas of interest include the archeology of Jerusalem burials and burial customs, art, epigraphy, and glyptics in the Iron Age. Professor Barkay's most famous discoveries are small silver plaques containing the priestly benediction from the Book of Numbers, which he discovered in 1979 at Ketef Hinnom. These plaques are believed to contain the oldest biblically-related inscription, dating back to 600 BC. He is the top expert on ancient Jerusalem.
(biography adapted from Wikipedia)
