The source was discovered 75 meters underground while workers were laying groundwork for the high-speed Tel Aviv-Jerusalem railway.

The cave appears to have developed after water seeped in from the surface and dissolved the underlying limestone.

“The cave is the largest and most impressive underground water channel ever discovered in Israel,” Prof. Amos Frumkin of the Hebrew University told Channel 2 News.

Frumkin said the water channel can be preserved without compromising infrastructure projects for the railway route.

-The Jerusalem Post, 2 June 2011, pg. 3

Most cities are built on a river or lake, but Jerusalem was established in a hill country, with limited water supply. Only a few kilometers to the east lays the Judean desert, which leads to the Dead Sea. The waters that fall on the Judean mountains run off to the west, into the Mediterranean. Yet Jerusalem, according to the Bible, is the most important city in the world. The prophet Zechariah has this to say, “And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness” (Zechariah 8:8).

The discovery of this large underground water resource is quite impressive, seeing that the people at that time had no modern equipment at their disposal, yet were able to secure large reservoirs of water for Jerusalem.

(For more on the prophet Zechariah, read Zechariah’s Prophetic Vision for the New World, Item 1052.)

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