A 5th century oil press on road 6953 (400m before junction Yoqneam-Megiddo).The Survey of Western Palestine (1871-1877) named the siteEl Harithiyeh (1871-1877);In the British Mandate map (1940) we find it as Kh. el Harithiya.El-Harithiyeh is identified with Harosheth, or Harosheth ha Gojim -“the smithy of the nations”.It was here that Jabin’s iron war-chariots, armed with […]
Labels: Archeology and History, Map, National Park, Tel Megiddo Megiddo National Park.
Gethsemane (in Hebrew “gat semani” means “olive press”) holds an important place in the Gospels, since Jesus spent there the night before his arrest after sharing his last supper with his disciples. In the garden of Gethsemane Jesus suffered the Agony (Matthew 26:36-44). Located on the Mount of Olives, next to the garden is the […]
Labels: Christian Holy Places, Shfaram Israel in photos
Through this gate, the Israeli paratroopers broke into the Old City of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War of 1967.This is the only open gate in the eastern wall, and one of the original gates of the sixteenth-century wall encompassing the Old City. It was called by many names in the past: Gate of the Tribes, […]
The miracle performed at Tabgha was the Multiplication of Loaves and Fishes, when Jesus fed five thousand people with five loaves of bread and two fishes (Matt. 14:13-21; Mark 6:30-44).The first church on the traditional site was built in the fourth century. A landslide from the nearby hill damaged it, and over its ruins another […]
Built in 1910, and was home to the first water pump used to draw water for irrigation from the Jordan River.
Shefaram Tombs – Byzantine period (5th-6th century) rock hewn burial cave.The tombs are located in the Christian section of Shefaram, exactly south to the fortress of Shefaram. Burial cave 1 (in order from west to east): The most western Burial cave, cave 1, is decorated with grape vines growing out of vases meeting together, twining […]
Semakh Station was the most important middle station on the original line between Haifa and Daraa in Syria.During most of the British Mandate era the station served as a railway border between the region of the French Mandate in Syria and the British region in Palestine. The two-storey building from the Ottoman period, with a […]
The first Jewish neighborhood built outside of Jaffa.Neve Tzedek was built in the end of the 19th century as a Jewish neighborhood for the people who wanted to move out of Jaffa. This is the first Jewish neighborhood built outside of Jaffa and the city of Tel Aviv evolved from this neighborhood. Today it is […]
