It was a big box. Really big. And once I’d ripped off all the wrappings I saw why.

“Yippee! A metal detector! Good old Uncle Nachum!”

I’d been telling him about how ancient Tzfas was and how much buried treasure there must be under all the ruins. One kid found an ancient gold coin on the Citadel worth 250000 shekels and another kid found a Canaanite dagger in his backyard! And all that was without a metal detector; I was for sure going to find some treasure!

But where to start? The best place I thought was our backyard. Working the metal detector was simple — just run its head over the ground. If it detected metal it beeped. A deep beep meant iron a medium beep meant coins and a high-pitched beep meant gold! I checked it out on Ima’s jewelry first which was great fun — until she discovered her gold bangles covered in dirt from when I’d buried them to see if I could find them again with the metal detector.