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The Jewish Temple stood on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in two iterations: the First Temple built by Solomon, and the Second Temple expanded by Herod. Both ended in destruction, in 586 BCE and 70 CE. Discussed here as part of Jerusalem in the Second Temple period.

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Inside the Josef Caro Synagogue
North · Galilee

Safed / Tzefat

A return to Tzefat, where I spent three months on my gap year, this time as a guiding student. Akhbara, Mt Canaan, the kabbalists' synagogues of the Old City and a sunset over the Crusader citadel.

View from Akhbara Lookout View over Tzefat and Mt Meiron from Mt Canaan Inside the Ashkenazi Synagogue of the Ari Ruins of a 16th century communal building in Tzefat Inside the Josef Caro Synagogue Mamluk and Crusader ruins in the Tzefat Citadel
Dome of the Rock (Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah)
Centre · Jerusalem

Muslim Jerusalem

Exploring Muslim Jerusalem: a morning on the Temple Mount platform with the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa, then through the Muslim Quarter learning to read Mamluk architecture, with a stop at Abu Shukri and the Little Western Wall.

Dome of the Rock (Masjid Qubbat As-Sakhrah) Mamluk architecture: note the alternating dark and light stone in the ablaq style The Little Western Wall (kotel hakatan)
Excavations of the outer western (the Kotel) and southern walls of the Second Temple Mount
Centre · Jerusalem

Jerusalem in the Second Temple period

A field trip through Jerusalem's Second Temple period sites: the City of David, the Tyropoeon valley drainage channel, the Davidson Centre, the Burnt House, the Wohl Museum of Archaeology, and the excavations beneath the Western and southern walls of the Temple Mount.

Walking up the Roman drainage channel in the Tyropoeon valley Capital possibly from the second temple The Burnt House of the Katros family, Jerusalem The oldest mosaic in Israel in the Wohl Museum of Archaelogy, Jerusalem Mikve from the second temple period in the western wall excavations Herodian street from the second temple period
Everlasting Hill at Mt Gerizim
West Bank

Benjamin and Samaria

A field trip into the West Bank: the archaeological site at Shiloh (briefly home to the tabernacle), a fog-bound viewpoint from Mt Kabir, and Mt Gerizim — holy site of the Samaritans.

View from Shiloh Model of the Altar of the Mishkan (Tabernacle) at Shiloh Sheikh Bilal at Mt Kabir Everlasting Hill at Mt Gerizim Byzantine Church at Mt Gerizim View over Nablus / Shechem from Mt Gerizim
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