Directors: Dr. Gideon Hadas & Dr. Orit Peleg-Barkat
Ein Gedi is one of the most beautiful places in the world, if not the most… a combination of brown stony desert mountains, green oasis fed by mountain springs and the many-coloured blue Dead Sea, the lowest place in the world. Its geology and history are equally fascinating.
The ancient Jewish village of Ein Gedi was inhabited since Biblical times and destroyed and rebuilt over the centuries. Before the founding of kibbutz Ein Gedi in 1956 it had not been inhabited for 500 years.
The Ein Gedi oasis site lies at the foot of the Judean Mountains, on the western shore of the Dead Sea, between the nature reserves of Nahal David and Nahal Arugoth. In between is the settlement spur, where the village was built over the period of many years and where, at the eastern part, is the Byzantine period village and the synagogue, roofed today by a large tent.
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