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The siege and fall of Jerusalem Due to problems among the inhabitants (Jews and Arabs) in the city of Jafo and poor living conditions, sixty Jewish families decided to build a new neighborhood on the Mediterranean coast (the future Tel Aviv, meaning "the hill of the spring). In April 1909, land purchased by the cooperative Ahuzat Bait, consisting of the sixty families that originally gave its name to the neighborhood, decided to distribute plots through a raffle. Akiva Arieh Weiss, director of the committee to draw up the shells 60 and 60 gray-white shells from the beach. Detail of the Arch of Titus showing the treasures looted from the Temple of Jerusalem (the Candelabrum of Seven Arm, the Hand of Proposition Breads, rolls of the law and the veil of the Sancta Sanctorum. ) Main article: Site of Jerusalem (70) The Jews managed to repel the forces of Cestius Galo in Bet Horon and forced him to withdraw, the killing in 6000 legionaires ambush. Next, the Emperor Nero ordered the bell to General Vespasian, the most experienced of Rome, which concentrated four legions (the V, X, XII and XV, sixty thousand men, about ) in Judea and achievement in the crush 68 Jewish resistance in the north. Asi, the leader Zealot northern Juan de Giscala, and Simon ben Giora assassin, escaped to Jerusalem. In the year 69 he was appointed Vespasian Emperor of Rome, leaving his son Titus, of twenty-nine years in charge of the siege and the taking of Jerusalem, the capital of the province of Judea. The siege of Jerusalem was harder than what we expected Tito. Unable to break the defense of the city, the Roman army was forced to sites, establishing a camp on the outskirts. The besieged Jerusalem was hell and people died by the thousands from disease and hunger. But...