Avinoam Danin (a researcher atthe HebrewUniversityofJerusalem) concurred with this analysis, adding that the pollengrains in theSudariummatch those of the shroud.
"We need to take a very long breath now, " sighed 27-year-old Avinoam Rozenbaum the day after he sat with some 600 other Israeli students to listen to Barack Obama's main speech during his three-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.