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LOWER GALILEE- BEIT SHE'ARIM,
remains of the ancient Jewish city, the Jewish cemetery, Sheikh Ibrek and Alexander Zaid monument.
After the Bar-Kochva Revolt (132-135CE.) when Hadrian closed the area around Jerusalem to Jews, Beit She'arim became the alternative to the Mount of Olives, to be buried. The center of Jewish life passed from Judea to the Galilee.
In the 2nd century CE. Rabbi Judah haNasi (135-217 CE.) head of the Sanhedrin and compiler of the Mishnah (Jewish Oral Law), established the Sanhedrin at Beit She'arim until the beginning of the 3rd century, when it moved to Sepphoris.
Rabbi Judah haNasi was buried in Beit She'arim. Services to the dead became the main industry of the town.
In the 19th century, a village Sheikh Ibrek, was located here. In 1938, Alexander Zaid, a leader of the "Hashomer" organization that worked to protect and defend Jewish settlements, was murdered close to his home, on the hill of the former village Sheikh Ibrek by an Arab assassin.
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1 Beit She'arim, the town
Olive Press
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2 Beit She'arim, the town,
Olive Press
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3 Beit She'arim, the town
remains of dwelling houses
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4 Beit She'arim, the town,
remains of dwelling houses
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5 Beit She'arim, National Park
Necropolis, Cave of the Coffins
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6 Beit She'arim, National Park
Necropolis, Sarcophagus of the lions
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7 Beit She'arim, National Park
Necropolis
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8 Beit She'arim, National Park
Necropolis
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9 Beit She'arim, National Park
Menorah carved on wall
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10 Beit She'arim, National Park
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11 Beit She'arim, National Park
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12 Beit She'arim, National Park
Cave (20), carved stone door
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13Beit She'arim, National Park
The cave of Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi
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14 Beit She'arim
Al Givot Sheikh Abrek, the land that is my land
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15 Beit She'arim
Tomb Sheikh Abrek
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16 Beit She'arim
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17 Beit She'arim 17
statue of Alexander Zaid
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18 Beit She'arim
statue of Alexander Zaid
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19 Beit She'arim
Al Givot Sheikh Abrek, the land that is my land
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Info: Israel Nature & National Parks Protection Authority
Telephone (04) 983-1643
Directions:
Beit She'arim National Park is off routes 75 and 722, between Hashomrim and Hatishbi junctions.
The park is a 10-minute drive from downtown Kiryat Tivon.
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, one of the founders of the Jewish secret defense organizations Bar Giora and Hashomer. The poet Alexander Penn dedicated his poem, Adamah, Admati ( Land, My Land) to Alexander Zaid.'))
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