Another strictly Haifa experience is spending a late night at Tichon in the Hadar neighbourhood.

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The evidence comes in the form of a 3.2 million-year-old bone that was found at Hadar, Ethiopia.

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The hadar, as settled bedouin are known, tend to have larger families and lean towards religious conservatism.

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From an Israeli perspective, it is just as uncontroversial as Yad Eliahu in Tel Aviv or Hadar in Haifa.

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It was discovered, along with much of the rest of her skeleton, in the Hadar region of Ethiopia, in 2000.

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"The bone that was recovered from the Hadar site has all the hallmarks of the form and function of the modern human foot, " he told the BBC.

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But, since any good pilgrimage must take into account the inspiration of a given moment (and since Hadar and Yifat were very inspirational), I was happy to heed the siren call.

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