Bible comes to life as precious gems discovered for first time in Israel

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Bible comes to life as precious gems discovered for first time in Israel

Tali Taub, the CEO of Holy Gems in Israel, claims her family was first to discover precious gems in Israel after her late father went on a long journey of exploration.

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A family-owned company said it brought Bible verses to life after the Israeli government certified it as the first to discover precious gems in the Holy Land.

The verse, found in the book of Isaiah, states that Israel's foundations will be laid with sapphires and its borders with precious stones. After the Taubs discovered various gems through its mining firm, the Israeli family launched a new company in 2022 to sell them.

"... I will lay your foundations with sapphires and I will make your windows of jasper and your gates of carbuncle stones, and all your border of precious stones" (Isaiah 54:11-12), the verse reads.

"It is a promise of God to Israel," Holy Gems CEO Tali Shalem-Taub told Fox News. "Why nobody ever tried to find them before, I don't know, but it's true."

The crown jewel of the company is the Carmel Sapphire, also known as carmeltazite, which includes a mineral previously thought to only exist in space, according to Shalem-Taub. At first, Shefa didn't know what the mineral was, so it sent a sample for identification to its then-collaborator, Mercury University in Australia. They were the ones to discover that this gem is a corundum with inclusions inside which are minerals that do not exist anywhere else in the world," Shalem-Taub said, adding that the conditions needed for this gem are very specific. "The scientists actually said that it was like a scientific proof of the uniqueness of the land itself."

The Carmel Sapphire is found nowhere else on Earth. Here is a good photo of a polished Carmel Sapphire from Wikipedia:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Carmel_Sapphire_found_by_Shefa_Yamim.jpg

 

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Here is a good photo of a polished Carmel Sapphire from Wikipedia:

That's beautiful