A tour of an underground vault in Israel housing the region's most precious artifacts, including the oldest known Hebrew Bible and a 1,300-year-old gold coin from the early Muslim Caliphate. Only three women in Israel are authorized to handle the Dead Sea Scroll. The vault sits tens of meters below ground, built to withstand rocket attacks.
This is the safest room in the Middle East. It's tens of meters underground, safe from any rocket attack.
Where are we now? Are we underground? We're in the bottom of the ten floors national campus.
It's not for a prime minister. It's not for humans. It's for a document. The Dead Sea Scrolls, and I found it—the oldest Hebrew Bible in the world, more than two thousand years old, found by a shepherd in a cave by the Dead Sea. Only Only three women in the country can handle it, and we got special access. The result? That's the Jews. Now look closely. It's in Hebrew, the same language spoken in Israel today. But then I turned around and saw this: a gold coin from the Muslim world, one of the oldest, 1,300 years old. It was made by the Muslim Caliphate. This This is the first-ever Jewish silver coin in history.
This is the first-ever Muslim coin in history.
And then I turned around and saw this, a Roman sword found in the ocean, still preserved to this day. This safe room in the National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel protects the history of all people, Jews, Muslims, and even Romans. The history of this land is complicated. We cannot change history. But we can change future.
So let's build a better future for everyone.
