Original sentence: BA 4th century Christian church in Shefa-amr attests to Christian habitation from that period.It was mentioned in connection with Jewish revolts against the Romans, and Jewish graves and remains in caves dating to Roman times have been found ther.Shefa-amr is also known to have had Jewish inhabitants even before the Christian era; it is mentioned in the Talmud as one of the cities that contained the seat of the Jewish Sanhedrin after the destruction of Solomon's Temple by the Romans in the year 70 CE.Subsequently they started working as merchants because of the high taxes.Until 1900, the Jews of Shefa-amr worked as farmers
Edited sentence: By looking at the archaeological findings in Shefa-amr it seems that the history of this city goes back centuries BCE.By the 4th century Christian church found in Shefa-amr you can tell that Byzantine Christians lived in it since that period.It is also known that lots of important events happened in it when the Jews rebelled against the Romans, and lots of Jewish graves and caves were found in it that, according to archaeologists, originate from the time when the Roman Empire ruled the area.It is believed that these inhabitants were Canaanites who lived in the area in antiquity.Lots of historians tried to find who were the original inhabitants of Shefa-amr but no one came out with a clear answer.Shefa-'Amr was one of the few Arab communities in Israel to have the status of a city ever since the establishment of the state; other communities, even when their populations came to be numbered in the tens of thousands, had the administrative status of local council or village and had to conduct prolonged struggles to be officially recognized as cities.The city is also known to have had Jewish inhabitants even before the Christian era; it is mentioned in the Talmud as one of the cities that contained the seat of the Jewish Sanhedrin after the destruction of Solomon's Temple by the Romans in the year 70 CE.Until 1900, the Jewish citizens of Shefa-amr worked as farmers, then they started working as merchants because of the high taxes