5027. SARTABA – The highest mountain in the Jordan Valley, well known in the Jewish tradition and history: Herod ‘the Great’, build a palace/fort, or modified existing Hasmonean ones. Archeological excavations of an ancient synagogue, note the ‘hart’ shaped pillar parts, typical in 5th. C. synagogues.

5027. SARTABA – The highest mountain in the Jordan Valley, well known in the Jewish tradition and history: Herod ‘the Great’, build a palace/fort, or modified existing Hasmonean ones. Archeological excavations of an ancient synagogue, note the ‘hart’ shaped pillar parts, typical in 5th. C. synagogues.

5028. SARTABA – The highest mountain in the Jordan Valley, well known in the Jewish tradition and history, remains of the Hasmonean fortress on the mountain top.

5029. SUSIYA – JEWISH TOWN DATING FROM THE 4 TO 7TH. C. AD IN THE JUDEAN HILLCOUNTRY SOUTH OF HEBRON. A LARGE SYNAGOGUE WITH A BEAUTYFUL MOSAIC FLOOR WAS EXCAVATED ON THE SITE. ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS OF A RURAL HOUSE.

5029. SUSIYA – JEWISH TOWN DATING FROM THE 4 TO 7TH. C. AD IN THE JUDEAN HILLCOUNTRY SOUTH OF HEBRON. A LARGE SYNAGOGUE WITH A BEAUTYFUL MOSAIC FLOOR WAS EXCAVATED ON THE SITE.

503. GIBEON – THE WATER POOL DATING FROM THE ISRAELITE PERIOD, MENTIONED IN THE BOOK OF SAMUEL II : ‘And JOAB the son of ZERUIAH, and the servants of DAVID went out and met by the POOL OF GIBEON’ 2 SAM 2:13

5037. ACCO, THE OLD CITY

504. JAFFO, ANCIENT CITY SOUTH OF TEL-AVIV AND MEDITERRANEAN PORT. THE CEDARS OF LEBANON, USED FOR THE BUILDING OF THE FIRST AND SECOND TEMPLE, WERE SHIPPED THROUGH THE PORT OF JAFFO (2 CHRON 2:16, EZRA3:7)

5040. ARAD, CNAANITE CITY IN NORTHERN NEGEV, FIRST STAGES OF THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN 1975, CITY WALLS AND TOWERS

5040. ARAD, CNAANITE CITY IN NORTHERN NEGEV, FIRST STAGES OF THE ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN 1975, CITY WALLS AND TOWERS

5044. ARAD – FORTIFIED CITY WALLS OF THE LOWER CITY DATING FROM THE CNAANITE PERIOD, EARLY BRONZE AGE (2900 – 2700 B.C.),

505. KADESH BARNEA, OASIS IN EASTERN SINAI, THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF CNAAN. THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL CAMPED THERE “MANY DAYS” ON THEIR WAY FROM EGYPT “So ye abode in KADESH many days…” (DEUT 1:46) “

505. KADESH BARNEA, OASIS IN EASTERN SINAI, THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF CNAAN. THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL CAMPED THERE “MANY DAYS” ON THEIR WAY FROM EGYPT “So ye abode in KADESH many days…” (DEUT 1:46) “

505. KADESH BARNEA, OASIS IN EASTERN SINAI, THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF CNAAN. THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL CAMPED THERE “MANY DAYS” ON THEIR WAY FROM EGYPT “So ye abode in KADESH many days…” (DEUT 1:46) “

5050. ATAROTH, ROMAN CITY NORTH OF JERUSALEM FROM WHERE THE STONES FOR BUILDING HEROD’S TEMPLE WERE QUARRIED. PIC: REMAINS OF THE QUARRY

5052. EIN HAGLA, SMALL OASIS EAST OF JERICH NEAR THE JORDAN RIVER, WHERE SEVERAL EARLY BYZANTINE PERIOD, HERMIT’S CAVES HAVE BEEN FOUND

5054. GAZA – THE GREAT MOSQUE, ONCE A CRUSADER CHURCH

5056. TEL ERANI IN SOUTHERN JUDEA

5059. ADULAM AREA, THE FOOTHILLS OF THE JUDEAN MOUNTAINS

5065. ZIKLAG (TEL SHARAA), Place S of Beersheba, given to David by a Philistine ruler when he was in flight from Saul.

5072. ZEFAT, THE OLD CITY

5077. TEL KADESH NAPHTALI, TOWN IN UPPER GALILEE CONQUERED BY ISRAEL (Josh. 12:22) ALLOTED TO THE TRIBE OF NAPHTALI. LEVITICAL CITY AND CITY OF REFUGE (Josh. 20:7)

5077. TEL KADESH NAPHTALI, TOWN IN UPPER GALILEE CONQUERED BY ISRAEL (Josh. 12:22) ALLOTED TO THE TRIBE OF NAPHTALI. LEVITICAL CITY AND CITY OF REFUGE (Josh. 20:7) REMAINS OF THE RIMAN TEPLE FROM THE 2 -3RD. C. AD

5081. KYPRION, MOUNTAINTOP NEAR JERICHO, THE SITE OF ONE OF KING HEROD’S PALACES

5081. KYPRION, MOUNTAINTOP NEAR JERICHO, THE SITE OF ONE OF KING HEROD’S PALACES. PIC: A MARBLE BATH EXCAVATED ON THE SITE

5086. RAMAT HA’NADIV – ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS

5086. RAMAT HA’NADIV – ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS

5088. REHOVOTH – LARGE NABATEAN CITY IN CENTRAL NEGEV, ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS OF BYZANTINE CHURCHES

5090. RACHIA, VILLAGE NEAR HEBRON

5091. CHURVAT RIMON, REMAINS OF A SAMARITAN TOWN IN SAMARIA

5095. NABLUS, VIEW ON THE OLDER PART OF THE CITY

5095. NABLUS, VIEW ON THE OLDER PART OF THE CITY