Reply #82: To put things into perspective, it's not uncommon here

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for graves to turn up during construction. The current brouhaha is about Muslim graves, but last year Jewish graves were found during construction of a road near Haifa - AFAIK, the bones were moved rather than the road being rerouted.

I haven't seen any indication that the SWC knew that the area of the construction site in question was part of the graveyard, seeing as it has been out of use for most of a century and the section in question long diverted to other purposes. That ebing so, once the remains were found, work should have stopped pending a determination by the High Court, which is the usual procedure in cases like this (which, again, are not particularly uncommon, both regarding Muslim and Jewish cemetaries). The second part is being done; it's unclear from news articles whether work was stopped or not.


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