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	Bet She'an - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bet She'an's location has often been strategically significant, as it sits at the junction of the Jordan River Valley and the Jezreel Valley, essentially controlling access from the interior to the coast, as well as from Jerusalem to the Galilee.
		Bet She'an is first listed among Thutmose III's conquests in the fourteenth century BCE, and the remains of an Egyptian administrative center from the XVIII and XIX dynasties have been excavated.
		During the 6th century Byzantine period, Bet She'an housed a Christian monastery named the Monastery of Lady Mary which has a Zodiac mosaic that is still preserved today, and in 409 it became the capital of the northern district, Palaestina Secunda.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scythopolis (781 words)

	Beit Shean
		The beautiful city of Beth Shean was located in the lush Jordan Valley not far from Mount Gilboa and close to the Jordan River, in the portion of land belonging to the tribe of Menasheh (Josh.
		During the Jewish revolt of 68 CE against Roman dominion, which led to the destruction of the Bais HaMikdash, Beth Shean was captured by the Romans and the Jewish inhabitants were massacred.
		Beth Shean was an active agricultural center of Eretz Yisrael, but the culture and flavor of the city was definitely Roman.
	www.campsci.com /iguide/beit_shean.htm (1077 words)

	Israel Nature & National Parks Protection Authority - Site page
		The settlement of Beit She'an began in the fifth century B.C.E. on a hilltop south of Nahal Harod, in the heart of a fertile area with plenty of water and at the crossroads of major thoroughfares.
		King David captured Beit She'an together with Megiddo and Ta'anach, and during King Solomon's reign the city was included in the administrative district of the valleys.
		Beit She'an was one of the ten federated cities known as the Decapolis alliance and the most important city in northern Eretz Israel.
	www.parks.org.il /ParksENG/company_card.php3?NewNameMade=44&from=116&CNumber=767359 (608 words)

	Beit She'an, Archaeology in Israel
		In Judges 1:27 Beit Shean is mentioned as belonging to the conquered area of the Israelite tribe of Manasseh, but in reality the Israelites were not advanced enough yet to be able to conquer a fortified stone city.
		In the famous battle of the Israelites against the Philistines on Mount Gilboa, the dead bodies of King Saul and his son Jonathan were hung on the walls of Beit Shean (1 Samuel 31:10).
		Beit Shean park seems a bit overwhelming at first glance and in the summer it can be very hot as the city lies in the low-lying valley like a frying pan.
	www.jewishmag.com /39mag/shean/shean.htm (1851 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Bet Shean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Archaeological excavations have traced settlements on the site back to the Bronze Age: Bet Shean was the site of an Egyptian administrative center during the XVIII and XIX dynasties (see Egypt), a Scythian city from c.625 to 300 BC, and the biblical city Beth-shan.
		In 64 BC it was taken by the Romans, rebuilt, and made the center of the Decapolis.
		The modern Bet Shean was established in 1949 by Israeli settlers.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/B/BetS1hean.asp (280 words)

	Newhouse B1
		An escape from routine meant descending from the breezy hilltop to the city of Beit Shean, suffocatingly hot in the summer but where pizza parlors could be found.
		Within weeks, the Malka killing was followed by the sniping murders of two girls and a foiled attack on another kibbutz that ended in the death of a suicide bomber and of a kibbutz resident who stopped him.
		Until the 1970s, the Beit Shean area was pummeled by artillery fire from Jordan, just across the river.
	www.newhousenews.com /archive/story1b112702.html (1372 words)

	Financial Resource Development and the Israel Education Fund
		Beit Shean, is located on Israel’s eastern border, 25 kilometers south of the Kinneret.
		The Beit Shean Region has been partnered with the Cleveland Jewish Community, through the JAFI initiated Partnership 2000 program, for the last 6 years.
		The Music Center in Beit Shean was built 17 years ago with the help of the Jewish Agency and the Montreal Jewish Community.
	www.jafi.org.il /iefund/projects.asp?id=52 (223 words)

	The Agenda
		This week simultaneous memorial services were held in Cleveland and in Beit Shean for the victims.
		Beit Shean Mayor Pini Cabalo and Yael Shealtieli, head of the Beit Shean Valley regional council were also present.
		Community members from Beit Shean and Cleveland could watch and participate in the ceremony by videoconference.
	www.jafi.org.il /agenda/2001/english/wk3-43/4.asp (361 words)

	Where (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Kibbutz Reshafim is situated in the Beit Shean Valley in Northern Israel, about five kilometres west of the town of Beit Shean.
		Rainfall in the Beit Shean region is sparse, about 300mm per year during the winter months only.
		After the Israelite conquest of Palestine, Beit Shean continued to be in the hands of the Canaanites.
	www.reshafim.org.il /kibbutz/id/where.htm (500 words)

	Bronze Age Philistines
		The excavation revealed that the culture of Beit Shean in the Late Bronze Age was primarily Egyptian.
		In the view of scholars, LBA Beit Shean was an Egyptian central administrative city, and served as the main base for their garrison.
		In the days of Saul, Beit Shean was a Philistine city, and only in the days of the greatness of the Israelite empire were the Israelites able to overcome it.
	www.starways.net /lisa/essays/philistines.html (4925 words)

	UJC - 'It Was As If the Heavens Were Crying' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Beit Shean Partnership 2000 office had ordered two wreaths for each of the dead, one with the name of the Jewish Agency and the second with the name of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland.
		Jackie Levy, who has twice run for mayor and who was Beit Shean's official Partnership contact for the first three years of Cleveland's involvement and who is now a member of the JAFI Board of Governor's subcommittee on P2K, was wounded in the leg.
		Just as Beit Shean's mayor and its chief educator have felt buoyed by the offers of support from Tel Aviv, Cleveland, Haifa, UJC and the Trauma Coalition, so too our whole country is in need of the continued support of each other and of the American people, both Jews and non-Jews.
	www.ujc.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=65957 (1743 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Gunmen strike during Likud polls
		Two gunmen attacked a bus station and the offices of Israel's governing Likud party in the northern town of Beit Shean on Thursday afternoon, killing six.
		The group said it was taking revenge for the deaths of two commanders in Jenin refugee camp, which is close to Beit Shean, on Tuesday.
		Beit Shean's mayor, Pini Caballo, said the gunmen had fired "hundreds of bullets" and witnesses heard at least two grenade blasts.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2524163.stm (641 words)

	CNN.com - Six Israelis killed in bus station attack - Nov. 29, 2002
		Victims of Thursday's shooting in Beit Shean arrive at a hospital.
		Media reports identified five of the dead as Haim Amar, 56; David Peretz, 48; Mordechai (Moti) Avraham, 44; and Yaakov Lari, 35, all of Beit Shean, and Shaul Ziberstein, 36, from Upper Nazareth.
		Beit Shean is in the northern Jordan Valley near the Israel-Jordan border.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/11/28/mideast.violence/index.html (551 words)

	USATODAY.com - Palestinian gunmen kill five Israelis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Five Israelis were killed and dozens wounded in the attack in the northern town of Beit Shean.
		The attack began sometime after 3 p.m., at a time when the Likud office in Beit Shean was crowded with members casting ballots in the leadership race between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
		In a phone call to The Associated Press, the Al Aqsa militia said two attackers opened fire in Beit Shean to avenge the deaths of two militia leaders in an explosion in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin earlier in the week.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002-11-28-israel-bus-shooting_x.htm (478 words)

	UJC - Beit Shean, Cleveland Stand Together in Tragedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Beit Shean Mayor Pini Kabalo (4th from left) and Yael Shaltieli (third from left), the head of the Beit Shean Valley Area Council, took part in the live video conference as well as Clevelanders (David Fleshler, Art Naparstek and Fran Immerman
		Naparstek as well as Clevelanders David Fleshler, Director, International Operations of the Cleveland Jewish Federation and Fran Immerman, Co-Chair of the Cleveland-Beit Shean P2K Steering Committee, traveled to Israel especially to participate in the video conference and to personally express Cleveland's condolences and support for the people of Beit Shean.
		Six people were killed and 43 were injured in a terrorist attack in the northern Israeli city -- just across the street from the "Cleveland House." Nearly 500 members of the Jewish community in Cleveland turned out for the video conference to express their grief and solidarity.
	www.ujc.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=66238 (211 words)

	Beit Shean - Gems in Israel
		Continue another 15 minutes or so to the Beit Shean Valley (which is really part of the Jordan Valley).
		It served as the military and administrative center of the Egyptian New Kingdom (between the 12th-16th centuries BCE) and is another one of the many sites that were destroyed in 732 BCE by Tiglath Pileser III, King of Assyria.
		It was on the walls of Beit Shean that the Philistines hanged the bodies of King Saul and his sons after the crushing defeat on Mt. Gilboa.
	www.gemsinisrael.com /e_article000002702.htm (401 words)

	Bet She'an
		Excavation in Bet She'an has uncovered the remains of a Canaanite city, a Hellenistic city (renamed Scythopolis) and a Roman Byzantine City.
		What makes this synagogue special is its beautifully preserved mosaic floor showing the 12 signs of the Zodiac with their names written in Hebrew and Aramaic.
		Near Beit Alpha is Tel Amal, an exact replica of the first Stockade and Tower settlement, which was built in Palestine in 1936.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vie/Betshean.html (407 words)

	An arms-selling kibbutz echoes a shift in Israeli values \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Beit Alfa's journey from a model of socialist agriculture to a profit-driven exporter parallels Israel's change in values from collectivism to capitalism and its development of a market economy stressing a huge defense industry, analysts say.
		Beginning in the 1960s, Beit Alfa, like kibbutzim throughout the country, began turning in earnest to industry, in line with the needs of the national economy and for their own economic well-being, according to Mr.
		Beit Alfa employs about 40 residents of nearby Beit Shean and Nazareth in the factory that makes the riot-control vehicles.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0610/p07s01-wome.html (973 words)

	Archeological excavations
		Ancient Beit Shean, once a Roman city, has been extensively excavated to reveal public streets, bath houses, and theaters.
		Many mosaics and marble carvings were unearthed in Beit Shean and are exhibited in a nearby museum.
		Beit Shearim, is a 2nd century C.E. necropolis.
	archaeological-dig-sites.com /israel_3.html (464 words)

	Gan Hashlosha (Sahne) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Near the Arab village of Samaria, six kilometers from Beit Shean, the jeep hit a land mine.
		When returning from a visit to the tower-and-stockade settlement of Tirat Zvi (near Beit Shean) with friends Etkin and Mosensohn, all three were killed when their car went over a road mine near the Arab village of Samaria.
		Haim Sturman’s son Moshe fell in the Israel War of Independence and Moshe’s son, Haim was killed in l969, in the Israel Defense Forces commando action on Green Island at the mouth of the Suez Canal.
	www.wzo.org.il /doingzionism/resources/view.asp?id=1509 (1544 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		After a three-hour search Security forces apprehended two terrorists Sunday at a wood factory in the Beit Shean industrial zone; the two were immedaitely taken in for Shin Bet interrogation.
		Due to the high alert level police officers deployed across the region and roadblocks were erected in the entrance to the northern town of Afula and on the main road leading to Beit Shean.
		Over the weekend, the IDF apprehended a would-be suicide bomber with a 10-kilogram explosives belt strapped to his body, at the Bekaot roadblock in the Jordan Rift Valley.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3235115,00.html (472 words)

	Beit Shean - Cleveland Partnership 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		MATI Beit Shean is a non-profit organization that leads efforts related to economic development in Cleveland's Partnership Region.
		MATI Beit She'an receives funding from several sources but most notably from the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland through the Beit She'an Community Foundation.
		MATI Beit She'an has also benefited immensely from personal relationships cultivated with members of the Cleveland Jewish Community over the past seven years.
	www.partner.org.il /beitshean/news-0206-aviran.html (696 words)

	Beit Orot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Rabbi Elon served as rabbi at Kibbutz Shluchot in Emek Beit Shean and as a Maggid Shiur (Lecturer) at Yeshivat Ateret Cohanim in the Old City of Jerusalem.
		Rabbi Elon is in the forefront of many public causes including the establishment of settlements such as Beit El, where he now resides, and the redemption of land in eastern Jerusalem.
		Rabbi Elon is married to columnist and author Emuna Elon (daughter of Pinchas Peli z"l) and father of six.
	www.beitorot.org /orot7.htm (326 words)

	Jewish Heritage In Depth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Stop at Beit Shearim, once the town of the Senhadrin, the Jewish supreme court.
		Drive via Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee to Beit Shean, also called "Scythopolis", the biggest archeological park in Israel with beautiful excavations from Roman and Byzantine periods.
		Proceed to Gan Hashlosha (Sachne) where you will have an opportunity to enjoy the water springs located at the foot of the Gilboa mountain, the famous mountain on which King Saul was killed in the battle against the Philistines.
	www.freegatetours.com /em41.htm (962 words)

	israelinsider: security: Six Israelis killed as terrorists fire on Likud headquarters in Beit Shean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Two Palestinian terrorists were shot dead by soldiers and security guards after they opened fire this afternoon on Israelis standing outside Likud Party headquarters in Beit Shean in the northern Jordan Valley.
		Dozens of Israelis were injured in the attack, at least 13 of them seriously, which took place in at least two locations in Beit Shean.
		Eyewitness Itzik Weizman said the attack occurred near the Likud Party headquarters in Beit Shean at a time when the building was crowded with people voting in the party primaries.
	web.israelinsider.com /bin/en.jsp?enPage=ArticlePage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Article^l1688&enZone=Security&enVersion=0& (457 words)

	Beit Shean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The ancient city of Beit Shean, located on the Jordan River south of the Sea of Galilee, is the largest archeological excavation in Israel.
		Behind the columns, in the distance, is the ancient tel of Beit Shean.
		It is the place where the body of King Saul was nailed to the city walls.
	www.lamblion.com /popup/2004Pilgrimage/pilgrimage-023.php (84 words)

	Love of the Land - Beit Shean
		It was to the walls of Beit Shean that the Philistines fastened the corpses of King Saul and his sons after vanquishing the Israelite army.
		Saul once saved the honor of the men of Yavesh Gilead, when the Ammonites had surrounded the city and demanded the right to blind the right eye of every one of its citizens as the price of peace.
		Modern Beit Shean was founded soon after the establishment of the State of Israel near a small Arab town called Bissan, a corruption of the city's Biblical name, and rapidly expanded to become a major development town which absorbed many olim from North Africa.
	ohr.edu /tw/weinbach/loveland/lland057.htm (351 words)

	Bet Shean Travel Specialists
		Beit Shean, today one of Israel's national parks, was, in ancient times, one of the Roman Decapolis cities.
		In the Bible, it was at Beit Shean that King Saul's head was displayed after he was killed.
		I arrange private tours for families, groups, etc. Although my focus is Jewish clientele I have also done tours for Christian groups.
	www.travants.com /destination.php3?location_id=694 (220 words)

	Prosper's House - Beit Shean, Israel - Guest House at Northern Israel
		If you are looking for high-quality lodging with excellent location and warm atmosphere, then this is the place for you.
		is situated in the town of Beit Shean near the Harod River.
		Many sites and attractions are in proximity to this special B&B: The ancient city of Beit Shean (including the Roman Theater, the Bathhouses, spectacular monuments and more), various churches, the lovely Huga Gardens and the hot springs at Gan Hashlosha ("Sachane"), to name a few.
	www.inisrael.com /prosper (210 words)

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