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Ubeidiya prehistoric site
Pleistocene · Oldowan
prehistoric site in Israel
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Kedesh
Kedesh (alternate spellings: Qedesh, Cadesh, Cydessa) was an ancient Canaanite and later Israelite settlement in Upper Galilee, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Gamla
Gamla (Imperial Aramaic: גמלא, lit. 'the camel'), also Gamala, was an ancient Jewish town on the Golan Heights.
🇮🇱 Israel · Fortress
Haifa
Haifa ( HY-fə; Hebrew: חיפה, romanized: Ḥayfā, IPA: [ˈχajfa]; Arabic: حيفا, romanized: Ḥayfā, IPA: [ħaj.faː]) is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of…
🇮🇱 Israel · Fortress
Château Pèlerin
Château Pèlerin (Old French: Chastel Pelerin; Latin: Castrum Perigrinorum, lit. 'Pilgrim Castle'), also known as Atlit and Magdiel, is a Crusader fortress and fortified town located about 2…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Acre, Israel
Acre ( AH-kər, AY-kər), known in Hebrew as Akko (Hebrew: עַכּוֹ, ʻAkkō, IPA: [ˈako]) and in Arabic as Akka (Arabic: عكّا, ʻAkkā, IPA: [ˈʕak.ka]), is a city in the coastal plain region of the Northern…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Adullam
Adullam (Hebrew: עֲדֻלָּם, romanized: ʿĂḏullām, Koine Greek: Οδολλάμ) is an ancient ruin once numbered among the thirty-six cities of Canaan whose kings "Joshua and the children of Israel smote"…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Beit She'arim (Roman-era Jewish village)
Beit She'arim (Hebrew: בית שערים; Imperial Aramaic: בית שריי / Bet Sharei), also Besara (Greek: Βήσαρα), was a Jewish village located in the southwestern hills of the Lower Galilee, during the Roman…
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Huqoq
Huqoq or Hukkok (Hebrew: חוקוק) was an ancient village located 12.5 kilometres (7.8 mi) north of Tiberias, now in the Lower Galilee region of Israel.
🇮🇱 Israel · Temple complex
Jish
Jish (Arabic: الجش, al-Jiŝ), also known by its Hebrew name of Gush Halab (Hebrew: גּוּשׁ חָלָב, Gūŝ Ḥālāḇ), or by its classical name of Gischala, is a local council in Upper Galilee, located on the…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Bayt Jibrin
Bayt Jibrin or Beit Jibrin (Arabic: بيت جبرين lit. 'House of the Powerful') was an Arab village in the Hebron Subdistrict of British Mandatory Palestine, in what is today the State of Israel, which…
🇮🇱 Israel · Rock-cut
Cave of Nicanor
The Cave of Nicanor ( ny-KAY-nər; Ancient Greek: Νῑκάνωρ, pronounced [niːˈkanɔːr]) is an ancient, elaborate burial complex located on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Horvat 'Ethri
Horvat 'Ethri (Hebrew: חורבת עתרי, lit. 'Ruin of Ethri'; also spelled Hurvat Itri, Ethri, Atari), or Umm Suweid (Arabic for "mother of the buckthorns"), is an archaeological site situated in the…
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Ashkelon National Park
Ashkelon National Park (Hebrew: גן לאומי אשקלון, Arabic: متنزه قومي عسقلان) is an Israeli national park consisting of the ruins of ancient Ascalon and Palestinian village Al-Jura, situated along the…
🇮🇱 Israel · Fortress
Cafarlet
Cafarlet or Capharleth (Crusader name) or Kafr Lam (Arabic name) is an Early Muslim coastal fortress of the Roman castrum type.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Kinneret (archaeological site)
Bronze Age
Kinneret (Hebrew: כִּנֶּרֶת, romanized: Kīnnereṯ) is the name of an important Bronze and Iron Age city of the ancient Levant situated on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
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Khirbet Qana
Khirbet Qana (Arabic: خربة قانا), is an archaeological site in the Lower Galilee of Israel. It has remains of a settlement from the Hellenistic period to the Early Arab period.
🇮🇱 Israel · Fortress
Belvoir Castle (Israel)
Belvoir Castle, also called Coquet by the Crusaders, also Kochav HaYarden (Hebrew: כוכב הירדן, lit. 'Star of the Jordan') and Kawkab al-Hawa (Arabic: كوكب الهوا, lit.
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Dalton, Israel
Dalton (Hebrew: דַּלְתּוֹן) is a moshav near Safed in northern Israel under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Khirbat Umm Burj
Khirbat Umm Burj was a Palestinian Arab village in the Hebron Subdistrict, sometimes designated in modern maps as Burgin. Its ruins are today located within the borders of Israel.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Baysamun
Baysamun or Beisamoun (Arabic: بيسمون, Beisamûn) was a small Palestinian Arab village, located 16.5 kilometers (10.3 mi) in the marshy Hula Valley northeast of Safad.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Nahal Ein Gev II
Epipalaeolithic Late Natufian (12,500–11,700 BP) · Late Natufian (Levant)
Late Natufian lake-margin hamlet with carved pebbles and bedrock mortar village near Sea of Galilee.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Beit Shemesh
Beit Shemesh (Hebrew: בֵּית שֶׁמֶשׁ, lit. 'House of the Sun') is a city located approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) west of Jerusalem in Israel's Jerusalem District.