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Jesus spent a lot of time preaching at Capernaum. The picture shows the ancient ruins and the modern Church of the House of Peter. The second aerial picture (used under permission from Bibleplaces.com) shows the octagonal church in the foreground.
Mathew 5:9: "Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons of God." This is located on the beautiful Mount of the Beatitudes overlooking the Sea of Galilee.
This is the place on the Sea of Galilee where Jesus fed the 5000 people who had come to hear him preach. It is a wonderful, peaceful place, revered by Christians. The second picture belongs to Bibleplaces.com and is used with their permission.
remnants of the largest Byzantine-period monastery in Israel
Tiberias (Hebrew טבריה, Tverya; Arabic طبرية, Ṭabariyyah) is a town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, Lower Galilee, Israel. It was named in honour of the emperor Tiberius.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberias
The remains of the synagogue, on view today, belong to the Severus synagogue, built between 337 and 286 B.C.E., the period when the Sanhedrin (assembly of 71 ordained scholars, which served as both as legislature and as supreme court) met in Tiberias.
Tel Hazor sits opposite Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar on the Rosh Pina-Metulla road. The tell (mound composed of the remains of successive settlements) has two parts: the 30-acre acropolis and the 175-acre lower city. Hazor flourished during the middle Canaanit
The 16,500-acre Israeli Yehudiya Forest Nature Reserve is located in the heart of the Golan Heights.
More than 200 species of water fowl flock to the reserve in Hula Valley
Israeli Natural reserve in the Golan heights
The ancient synagogue of the village of Baram was constructed from large and particularly beautiful hewn stones. Baram National Park also contains the ruins of the Maronite village of Biram. I
נהריים ממוקמת בבקעת הירדן, בתחום ממלכת ירדן סמוך ליישוב מנחמיה. בנהריים שכן מפעל החשמל של חברת החשמל, על גדות שני הנהרות (הנהריים) נהר הירמו...
The Cochav Hayarden National Park is on the eastern part of the Yissahar Ridge, on the edge of the steep slope overlooking the Jordan Valley.
also known by its Greek name Sepphoris, mishnaic-period city with an abundance of mosaics