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The Roman City.
Founded by King Herod in the first century BCE on the site of a Phoenician and Greek trade post known as Stratons Tower, Caesarea was named for Herods Roman patron, Augustus Caesar. This city was described in detail by the Jewish historian Josephus Flavius. (Antiquities XV. 331 ff; War I, 408 ff) It was a walled city, with the lar...
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The theater is located in the very south of the city. It was commissioned by King Herod and is the earliest of the Roman entertainment facilities built in his kingdom. The theater faces the sea and has thousands of seats resting on a semi-circular structure of vaults. The semi-circular floor of the orchestra, first paved in painted plaster, was lat...
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The Valley of Elah, "the valley of the oak or terebinth" [1]
(Hebrew: עמק האלה Emek HaElah) (Arabic Wadi es-Sunt), best
known as the place described in the Bible where the Israelites
were encamped when David fought Goliath (1 Sam. 17:2, 19). It
was near Azekah and Socho (17:1). On the west side of the
valley, near Socho, there is a very large...
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Yehiam (Hebrew: יְחִיעָם) founded on November 26, 1946, is a Kibbutz located in the western Upper Galilee region of Israel - about 10
miles due east of the coastal town of Nahariya and five miles south of the border with Lebanon. Yehiam is located some 400 meteres
above sea level, and is under the jurisdiction of the Matte Asher Regional Council...
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Mary's Tomb is a tomb located in the Kidron Valley, on the foothills of Mount of Olives,
near the Church of All Nations and Gethsemane garden, originally just outside Jerusalem.
It is regarded as the burial place of Mary, the mother of Jesus by most Eastern
Christians (many of whom refer to her as Theotokos)[1][2], in contradistinction to the
H...
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Timna (Arabic,تمنة) is an ancient city in Yemen, the capital
of the Qataban kingdom; it is distinct from a city in Southern
Israel that shares the same name. During ancient times, Timna
was an important hub in the famous Incense Route (which
supplied Arabian and Indian incense via camel caravan to ports
on the Mediterranean Sea, most notably G...
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Tiberias (pronounced /taɪˈbɪəri.əs/; Hebrew: טְבֶרְיָה, Tverya (audio) (help·info); Arabic: طبرية, Ṭabariyyah) is a city on
the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, Lower Galilee, Israel. Established in 20 CE, it was named in honour of the
emperor Tiberius.[2]
Tiberias has been venerated in Judaism since the middle of the 2nd-century[3] and sin...
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Mary’s Well (Arabic: عين العذراء, Ain il-'adra, or "The spring of the Virgin Mary") is reputed to
be located at the site where the Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and announced that she would bear
the Son of God - an event known as the Annunciation.
Found just below the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in modern-day Nazareth, the well wa...
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The Cave of Elijah is a cave in which the biblical Elijah
sought shelter on his journey in the wilderness.
Elijah the Prophet of Yahweh traveled, for 40 days and 40
nights into the Wilderness of Sin, to Mount Horeb, the
original mountain where Moses saw the burning bush and where
the Israelites made a covenant with God. Upon reaching the
Mount...
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Yad Hashmona (Hebrew: יַד הַשְּׁמוֹנָה, lit. Memorial for the
Eight) is a small moshav shitufi in central Israel, located
in the Judean Mountains on the outskirts of Jerusalem,
within the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.
The village was originally founded in the early 1970s by
Finnish Christians but is today populated mainly by ...
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