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VISIT TO PALESTINE (George A. Flefel 2004) In August 2004, I received a special invitation from W.A.R. (Wyatt Archaeological Research) in the person of Richard Rives, who encouraged me to be part of an unique experienc e of archaeol ogical excavations in the city of Jerusalem, together with a team conforme d by represent atives from different countries, to get further on the excavat ions of the already localized Ark of the Covenant, also to a singular exploration related to the city of Gomorrah and in theory, a visit to Noah’s Ark. He requested me to call him as soon as possible, what I did the same day. Without a clear established date, the plan consisted on dedicati ng two weeks of arduous excavations, especially in Solomon’s Quarry, more precisely in the vicinities of the tunnel that leads to the cave where we know the Ark of the Covenant remains hidden. In this opportunity, especial equipments would be taken, including an infrared camera. We would intent to perform a little perforation in which we were going to introduce that device to determine the tunnel precise direction that leads to the Ark’s cave. The Ark of the Covenant was found 22 years ago by Ronald Wyatt, whom I nicknamed as the true Indiana Jones. It had been organized an expedition made up of people of trust that were going to be hosting at the YMCA hotel, which is located at the very front of the famous King David’s hotel in Jerusalem, transport ation, food and security was going to be provided, those two weeks should be of significant cost (US$ 2.000). Then, I needed to organize and get the plane tickets in such a way that I should be ready to work on Sunday 29 of August 2004. I accept the challenge, but I have an important number of relatives curr ent ly living in Bet hleh em, Jerusale m and neig hbor area s, a pers onal refl ect ion emerge in me as part of this expedition but at the same time to I was willing to take advantage of the opportunity of visiting my relatives, I really wanted to know them better and if possible I could make an important saving, avoiding the expensive hotel and food payment. I was coming from Chile and the trip was planned with no time, then the plane tickets were allready of a high cost, especially when it was a summer season in the northern hemisphere. By the other hand, I strongly felt in my heart, that it would be the opportunity to start some particular explorations related to the original city of Jesus and king David, and also in a secr et projec t related to him and one of his sons. Then I made the decision to make contact with my relatives in Bethlehem for them to know about my visit. As expected, from a culture that honors our patriarch Abraham, they happily offered me many places to stay so abundantly that I considered, that maybe I was going to fight with the opposite effect, I mean giving continuous excuses for not been able to correspond to so much hospitality. I told about the plans to my team in Chile, the “Arkey Group”, which ready to cooperate , provided me with many of the necessary device s. Mysteriously , while I was telling about this to a good friend engineer, shocked he told me about an amazing “coincidence”, for he was requiring urgently contacting the most prestigious technology companies in Israel and then being able to participate in an interesting tender of the Chilean gover nment. The aut hor ities were looki ng for a solut ion to the publi c transport at ion system, inc orp ora ti ng “cont actless” smar t cards , techn ology tha t supposedly should be in development in Israel.

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