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Tel Gezer

Tel Gezer guards the western edge of the Shfela, a Canaanite and Israelite city known for its Solomonic-period gate and the Gezer calendar. Discussed here as part of a day in the Ayalon Valley.

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Israelite gate at Tel Gezer
Centre · Judean Lowlands (Shfela)

The Ayalon Valley

A day in the Ayalon valley between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Tel Gezer's Israelite gate, Mini Israel, the Crusader Toron des Chevalliers and Latrun's silent Trappist monks, ancient Emmaus, the Tombs of the Maccabees and Neot Kedumim.

Apr 2014 · 4 minute read
Israelite gate at Tel Gezer Mini Jerusalem at Mini Israel Inside le Toron des Chevalliers The Trappist Church at Latrun Byzantine period baptistery at ancient Emmaus Second Temple Period tomb in the Ayalon-Canada Park The Tombs of the Maccabees - burial site of Mattisyahu himself? View over the biblical landscape of Neot Keduim
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