Tel Michal (Makmish, Tel Mikhal)


Tel Michal lies in Herzliya on Israel's coastal plain, in an estuary on the southern or south-eastern side of the high "tel" overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. 



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Excavations show habitation from the Middle Bronze Age
(about 2000 BCE) to the Persian period (586-332 BCE).
Tel Michal declined during Persian rule as Apollonia (lying 3.5 km north) was founded and grew in importance.
The archaeological remains of Tel Michal are scattered over five hills, seventeen strata have been excavated from 1977 through 1980.
Special finds are the Iron Age wine presses, the Persian cemetery, and the 31x38m Roman fortress, that was based on fundamental elements from non chiseled stones of kurkar.
The fortress functioned in the first half of the first century, this according to coins of the following procurators:
Marcus Ambibulus (Roman Prefect under Augustus, 9 - 12 CE),
Valerius Gratus (Roman Prefect under Tiberius, 15 - 26 CE),
Pontius Pilate (Roman Prefect under Tiberius, 26 - 36 CE)
and one coin of Herod Agrippa I (37 - 44 CE), that were found in Tel Michal.

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Tomb of Zechariah

Valley of Josaphat, Jerusalem.

According to a Jewish tradition this is the tomb of the priest Zechariah Ben Jehoiada (Book of Chronicles).

The pyramid-topped 'Tomb of Zechariah' is actually the aboveground monument of the adjacent 'Tomb of Bnei Hezir'.

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Jerusalem's Cardo (Jewish Quarter, Old city of Jerusalem)


The Cardo was built in the reign of Emperor Justinian (527-565).
The Cardo, running north to south, was the main street of Aelia Capitolina, the Roman and Byzantine city and is depicted in the Madaba map
(6th century map discovered in 1896 in the floor of a Byzantine church in the Jordanian city of Madaba).

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Knesset Menorah

The Knesset Menorah (Menorat HaKnesset).


Located at Gan Havradim (Rose Garden) in front of the Knesset (The Israeli parliament).
The Menorah is the work of Beno Belkan, a British sculptor.
It is made of bronze and 5 meters high and 4 meters wide.
On each of the seven branches is a relief depicting events and personages from the history of the Jewish people and culture.
It was given to the State of Israel by the British Labour Party as a token of goodwill and friendship.

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Turkish Railway Bridge (Beersheba)


The remaining arches of the Ottoman Turkish railway bridge (built in 1915).

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German Colony (HaMoshava HaGermanit), Jerusalem



The German Colony is a neighborhood in Jerusalem, established in the second half of the 19th century by members of the German Temple Society (Wikipedia).

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