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Josephus, when speaking about Besara in Vita § 24 (the Jewish-Galilean Aramaic dialect for Beit Shearim), places the village at "60 stadia (more than 11 km.) from Simonias," a distance corresponding with the site at Sheikh Bureik, where is situated the largest Jewish necropolis found in the Land of Israel, and only "20 stadia (3.7 km.) from ...
Part of the 'Biblical Tels – Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba' World Heritage Site [34] Beth Alpha: Bet Alpha, Bet Alfa [35] Beit Guvrin: Bayt Jibrin, Eleutheropolis [36] Part of the 'Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands as a Microcosm of the Land of the Caves' World Heritage Site [37] Beit She'arim (Roman-era Jewish village)
During the 1920s Luise Lea Zaloscer and her sister Klara Barmaper organized the purchase of the site on behalf of the Jewish National Fund in Yugoslavia.In 1926 a group of immigrants from Yugoslavia settled in the place and established a moshav, taking the name from the ancient city of Beit She'arim, the ruins of which are today a national park that was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO ...
In the 1930s and 1950s, the site was excavated by Benjamin Mazar and Nahman Avigad. Excavations resumed in 2014. [30] Beit She'arim - Cave of the Horseman. Since 2014, the excavations at the site have been conducted [clarification needed] by Adi Erlich, on behalf of the University of Haifa's Institute of Archaeology, and are ongoing as of 2021 ...
The Meah Shearim Yeshiva and Talmud Torah is a yeshiva in the Meah Shearim quarter of Jerusalem. It was established in 1885. It was established in 1885. The head of the yeshiva was Rabbi Yosef Gershon Horowitz, one of the leaders of the Mizrachi movement .
Mea Shearim, one of the earliest Jewish settlements outside the walls of the Old City, was established in 1874 by a building society of 100 shareholders. [3] Pooling their resources, the society members purchased a tract of land outside the walled city, which was severely over-crowded and plagued by poor sanitation, and built a new neighborhood ...
Ruins at Khirbet Qeiyafa: Proposed site of She'arayim. Shaaraim (Hebrew: שַׁעֲרַיִם, romanized: Šaʿărayim), possibly meaning Two Gates, is an Israelite city mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. Some have identified it with Khirbet Qeiyafa, an archaeological site on a hilltop overlooking the Valley of Elah in the Judean ...
Beit Yisrael (Hebrew: בית ישראל, lit. House of Israel) is a predominantly Haredi neighborhood in central Jerusalem. [1] It is located just north of Mea Shearim.. The name Beit Yisrael is taken [2] from the verse in Ezekiel 36:10, in which Ezekiel prophesies to the hills and mountains of Israel, "I shall make numerous on you the people, the entire House of Israel; the cities will be ...