The David Discovery

The year was 702 C.E., the place North Africa’s Aures Mountains. Al-Kahina, “the Sorceress” and princess of the Jewish Berber Jarawa tribe, prepared to lead her army in a last battle against invading Muslim forces. But not before sending her son, a descendant of the biblical King David, to safety.

In 1799, Chaim Farhi, advisor to Jezzer Ali Pasha, governor of Sanjak Acre, readied defenses against Napoleon and his army. Aided by the British navy, the Sultan’s forces break the French siege. Bu...