Welcome to French Hill (Hebrew: הגבעה הצרפתית "HaGiv'a HaTzarfatit", Arabic: التلة الفرنسية "at-tel al-faransiya"). The source of the name is unclear. According to local legend, it was named after a British general, John French, 1st Earl of Ypres who is said to have had his headquarters on this hill. According to this legend there was a mistake with the translation to Hebrew that named the place after the country France (in Hebrew: Tzarfat). However, French never served in this region. According to Israeli geographer Zev Vilnay, the land belonged to the Catholic Monastery of St. Anne, whose monks hailed mainly from France. If the neighborhood had been named for General French, the correct name in Hebrew would have been "Giv'at French". [excerpted from Wikipedia]
This is a small gum-bottle cache, hidden at the bottom of the hill. The posted coordinated bring you to Gan HaShlosha ("Garden of the Three"), which commemorates three young fallen soldiers, who grew up in this neighborhood.
Note: Solving this puzzle is much easier if you can read Hebrew. Though the questions are designed to be answerable by non-Hebrew speakers as well, they would be a bit trickier.
Answer the following simple questions to get the final coordinates:
ABCD = the year the soldiers died.
E = the number of basketball players, PLUS 1
F = the number of latitude lines (קוי רוחב) on the stone ball.
XYZ = F * C * (B+D)
The cache (final) coordinates are at:
N 31 48.EAC
E 35 14.XYZ
checksum: E + A + C + X + Y + Z = 30
I started off the cache with a bunch of coins from around the world.
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