Knesset displays 2,000-year-old jar used by ancient Jews

Dr Einat Ambar-Armon, director of the IAA Northern Region Community-Educational Centre, said: “This find reflects a high level of strict halachic adherence and a cohesive and well-defined Jewish lifestyle, and illuminates the character of the Galilee as an active and vibrant living space [at the time].”

From the Great Assembly to the Knesset exhibition (Image: Israel Antiquities Authority)[Missing Credit]

The jar is part of the exhibition titled From the Great Assembly to the Knesset, which includes artifacts from the Mishnah and Talmud periods - a time when Jewish law in the region first progressed from oral accounts to text – to showcase the roots of Israeli governance.

Ambar-Armon added that the Galilee at the time was the “very region within which the leadership of the Jewish people... flourished and functioned”.

The exhibition also includes coins, pottery and inscriptions from the historically important era.

A statement by curators of the IAA reads: “The archaeological findings presented in the exhibition illuminate the activities of Jewish leadership institutions throughout the generations, and the continuous connection between Jewish history and the Knesset - the House of Representatives of the State of Israel.”