The story that Yochanan Ben Zakkai was smuggled out of Jerusalem during the siege and predicted that Vespasian would become emperor requires considerable credulousness or a better explanation, because the siege of Jerusalem began in May, 70 CE but in July of 69 Vespasian had already been proclaimed emperor. See here for example - http://www.livius.org/ja-jn/jewish_wars/chrono66.html [[Mewnews (talk) 23:55, 16 May 2009 (UTC)]]
Whether or not the claim mentioned above about Vespasian is accurate I do not know, however the year the temple was destroyed is an old dispute if it was destroyed in 68, 69, or 70 of the common eraReply
FYI: I moved the page to Yohanan ben Zakkai per WP:COMMONNAME after reviewing the frequency of many possible names on Google Ngram Viewer. See the graph here.
- Jochanan ben Zaccai
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- Johannan ben Zakkai
- Jokhanan ben Zaccai
- Jokhanan ben Zakai
- Yochanan ben Zaccai
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- Yohannan ben Zakkai
- Yokhanan ben Zaccai
- Yokhanan ben Zakai
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Daask (talk) 17:38, 22 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
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