Israel Antiquities Authority Yavne excavation director Pablo Betzer shows a fragment of a measuring cup found at the Tel Yavne excavation site, where remains of a building dating back to the Sanhedrin era have been uncovered, in central Israel on November 29, 2021. Israel's Antiquities Authority excavations in Yavne have uncovered the first evidence there of a building from the time of the Sanhedrin—the supreme legislative Jewish assembly that went into exile in Yavne after the fall of Jerusalem, some 2,000 years ago. MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP.