Arsuf becomes Apollonia The Phoenicians or Canaanites founded this ancient city and named it Arsuf (ארשוף – ארסוף) after their god Reshef. During the Hellenistic period it was renamed Apollonia ...
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Karnei Hittin
Horns of Hattin is an extinct volcano with the crater between two peaks. Archaeologists have found remains of settlement from the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze era. The Canaanite settlement was destroyed ...
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Tel Tzova (also Tzuba) – Ruins of a Crusader Belmont Castle and an abandoned Arab village in the Judean Hills. Beautiful view of the surrounding hills. Today Kibbutz Tzuba on ...
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