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Gold Fever
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Jerusalem Post
04-25-1997
The British cavalry came thundering across the plains of Armageddon (Megiddo), closing in fast. A German army sergeant heaved crates bursting with gold coins onto a mule-drawn cart and set off for the Turkish General Headquarters in Nazareth.
He didn't make it, and the legend of Ottoman gold buried in Palestine was born.
In the 80-odd years since British-led forces routed the Germans and Turks in World War I, the legend has ...
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