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Location:
Gamala
Description:
Gamala ("camel") viewed westward towards the northeastern shores of Sea of Galilee. Called "the Masada of the North," here Jewish Zealots ("freedom fighters") resisted the Romans to the death in the 1st Jewish War (A.D. 67).


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Location:
Gamala
Description:
The site of Gamala on a hill shaped like the back of a camel.


// Photo by Terry C. Hulbert


Location:
Gamala
Description:
The site of Gamala is visible on the peak (center).


// Photo by Sarah Carter


Location:
Gamala
Description:
In 67 A.D., the Romans captured Gamala where Jewish ultra-nationalists had been hiding out to avoid paying Roman taxes and to wait for the Messiah. During the battle, 9,000 Jews died--some at the hands of the Romans and some by suicide.


// Photo by Terry C. Hulbert