Point to Ponder: How paradoxical it is that while there are so many attempts by Moslems, by some Christians, by anti-Zionists and others to rewrite history and remove all Israeli/Jewish connections to Jerusalem and this land, it was thanks to the illegal Moslem excavation on the Temple Mount that the half shekel coins used as tax for the Temple were discovered.
Follow the link and read about the half shekel coin from biblical times to its present discovery where the Jewish Temple stood prior to its destruction by the Romans in 70 AD.