(Times of Israel) Around 2,200 Israelis took part early Thursday in a first "Bible Marathon" which cut through the West Bank under tight security and ended at an ancient biblical site.
The race, organized by a Jewish settler body in the northern West Bank, took place a day after a Palestinian stabbed two Israeli soldiers before being shot dead at a location not far from the finish line.
The route ran from Rosh Ha'ayin inside Israel then cut eastward through the West Bank to end at the ancient biblical site of Tel Shiloh, just outside the Jewish settlement of the same name.
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