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Tel Miqne in Wikipedia

The city of Ekron (Hebrew: עֶקְרוֹן‎ ʿeqrōn, also transliterated Accaron) was one of the five cities of the famed Philistine 'pentapolis,' located in southwestern Canaan. During the Iron Age, Ekron was a border city on the frontier contested between Philistia and the kingdom of Judah. Robinson identified the Arab village of Aqir as the site of Ek...

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Mount of Temptation in Wikipedia

The Mount of Temptation was the hill in the Judean Desert where Jesus was tempted by the devil. The exact location is unknown, and impossible to determine. Atop the mount is the Monastery of the Temptation or "Qarantal". Above Qarantal, on top of the cliff, is a wall, that sits on the ruins of the Hasmonean (later Herodian) fortress, Dok – Dag...

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Nazareth in Wikipedia

Nazareth (pronounced /ˈnæzərəθ/; Hebrew: נָצְרַת‎, Natzrat or Natzeret; Arabic: الناصرة‎ al-Nāṣira or al-Naseriyye) is the largest city in the North District of Israel. Known as "the Arab capital of Israel," the population is predominantly made up of Arab citizens of Israel.[2][3] In the New Testament, the city is described as the childhood home ...

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Rujm el-Hiri in Wikipedia

Rujm el-Hiri (Arabic: رُجم الهِرّي‎, Rujm al-Hirrī, also romanized as Rujm Hiri and Rujum al-Hiri; Hebrew: Gilgal Refaim, גִּלְגַּל רְפָאִים) is an ancient megalithic monument consisting of concentric circles of stone with a tumulus at center.[1] It is located in the Golan Heights some 16 kilometers (10 mi) east of the eastern coast of the Sea of...

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Solomons' Pools in Wikipedia

Solomon's Pools (Beraik Solayman), are located immediately to the south of al-Khader and about 5 kilometres southwest of Bethlehem. The pools consist of three open cisterns, each pool with a 6 metre drop to the next, fed from an underground spring. With each pool being over 100 metres long, 65 metres wide and 10 metres deep, the total water capa...

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Kedesh in Wikipedia

The ruins of the ancient Canaanite village of Kedesh are located within the modern Kibbutz Malkiya in Israel on the Israeli-Lebanese border.[1] Kedesh was first documented in the Book of Joshua as a Canaanite citadel that was conquered by the Israelites under the leadership of Joshua. Ownership for Kedesh was turned over, by lot, to the tribe ...

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Mount Scopus in Wikipedia

Mount Scopus (Hebrew הַר הַצּוֹפִים (Har HaTsofim), Arabic جبل المشارف Ǧabal al-Mašārif, lit. "Mount Lookout"), جبل المشهد Ǧabal al-Mašhad, جبل الصوانة) is a mountain (elevation: 2710 feet or 826 meters above sea level) in northeast Jerusalem, Israel. In the wake of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Mount Scopus became a UN protected Jewish exclave w...

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Negev in Wikipedia

The Negev (also Negeb; Hebrew: נֶּגֶב‎, Tiberian vocalization: Néḡeḇ, Turkish: Necef Çölü) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The Arabs, including the native Bedouin population of the region refer to the desert as al-Naqab (Arabic: النقب‎). The origin of the word Neghebh (or in Modern Hebrew Negev) is from the Hebrew root denot...

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Samaria in Wikipedia

Samaria, or the Shomron (Hebrew: שֹׁמְרוֹן‎, Standard Šoməron Tiberian Šōmərôn; Greek: Σαμάρεια; Arabic: سامريّون‎, Sāmariyyūn or السامرة, as-Samarah – also known as جبال نابلس, Jibal Nablus) is a term used for a mountainous region roughly corresponding to the northern part of the West Bank. Etymology - The name "Samaria" derives from an ancien...

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Susita in Wikipedia

Hippos is an archaeological site in Israel, located on a hill overlooking the Sea of Galilee. Between the 3rd century BC and the 7th century AD, Hippos was the site of a Greco-Roman city. Besides the fortified city itself, Hippos controlled two port facilities on the lake and an area of the surrounding countryside. Hippos was part of the Decapoli...

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