Hi Daily Briefing listeners! We’ll be back on Sunday to give you the latest news from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. But for today, here is a special episode of Times Will Tell, our weekly feature that drops every Friday.

This week we're speaking with author and journalist Andrew Lawler, who recently published the fabulous “Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City.”

Host Amanda Borschel-Dan absolutely devoured the book and highly recommends it to anyone interested in Holy Land history, archaeology, or even just tales of unbelievable, but real characters. It’s a real trip along the timeline of Jerusalem archaeologists, spanning from the 1860s through today.

We get a sense of the crazy people behind the digs, government involvement and the sparks of geopolitical conflict that still simmer.

Image: Author Andrew Lawler (Samir Al-Sharif)

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