The BIU liason to non-Hebrew Press (Elana) brought this article to my attention.
What can I say, this is a lot of hogwash. It doesn’t matter what you say, someone will read into it what they want to understand, and use if for their agendas.
There was nothing of the sort in what was reported in the press, in the three cases that I was interviewed directly (Haaretz, Times of Israel and Jerusalem Post). Other places where I was quoted, are not that accurate. But in any case, none of the political claims and statements that are presented in this horrible article represent what I told the press.
What is funny, that from reading various secondary and tertiary media reports on the finds from this season, there were three different types of reactions:
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