200 year old Shofar found

A shofar believed to have been hidden in a German beer cellar during World War II was discovered in Haifa. The 200-year-old shofar was recently found in the warehouse of�Haifa�s Gordon College, whose former deputy director had served as a rabbi with Allied forces fighting the Nazis, Ma�ariv reported Wednesday.

According to the newspaper, the rabbi, Yaacov Lifschitz-Gil, found the shofar during postwar searches of Munich beer cellars that had been frequented by Hitler.

The shofar has been donated to Yad Vashem, Israel�s Holocaust memorial.

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