(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM) Just to the left of the entrance to the Clal Building on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem stands a gate leading nowhere. The only clue to its history is the engraving on ...

It reads: 'Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate and at the angle of the wall, and he ...

The locale — whose name is derived from the Hebrew Ge Hinnom, meaning “Valley of Hinnom” — was a real valley outside the walls of old Jerusalem ... as Pluto’s Gate, whereupon the beasts ...