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Long before Rome and Athens, there existed another hilltop city of the ancient world, Jerusalem. Let the Stones Speak is the story of the City of David, the ancestral home of the Jewish people dating back nearly 4,000 years -- but only discovered in the last two centuries.
Amid seemingly hopeless politicization of the Israel and Palestine conflict and campaigns to delegitimize the millennia-old connection between Jews and the land they inhabit today between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean sea, Doron Spielman's Indiana Jones-like adventure into the City of David is a necessary, timely historical and archaeological record of the truth: that the Jews are indigenous to the Land of Israel, at least as much as any people are indigenous to any land in the world.
Let the Stones Speak is the story of the extraordinary progress excavators have made in discovering the ancient roots of Israel. As an American who made aliyah to Israel and oversaw the City of David foundation, Spielman is the perfect ambassador to bring this story to the West.
In two decades of work for the City of David Foundation, Spielman was privileged to witness, firsthand, the transformation of a neglected hilltop outside the Old City Walls into the archeological wonder of the City of David. Over the years, as the site rose to prominence, Spielman took hundreds of people including donors, diplomats, professors, and politicians deep into the City of David’s tunnels. The list of people he accompanied included entertainment figures such as Jerry Seinfeld, Helen Mirren, and Demi Lovato, and politicians and diplomats such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Ambassador Nikki Haley, and governors Gretchen Whitmer, Ron DeSantis, and Gavin Newsom.
While often holding vastly different political views, after seeing the evidence of thirty-eight hundred years of Jewish history unearthed, these visitors seemed to agree on one thing: that the story of the City of David must be told to a wider audience.