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Judea and Samaria It‛s Time to Get Acquainted

Givon Valley:
A valley north of Jerusalem
Mount Baal Hatzor: Beit Zacharia:
Maaleh Levona: (between the Jerusalem Hills and
Golan Heights A mountain east of Beit (Today Hirbet Zakaria, near the town
A steep rise between
Shechem and Beit El. El. This was where
Beit El Hills). This is where Judah
Maccabee defeated Nicanor.
Jordan of Elazar). This is where Judah
Judah Maccabee was 6 Maccabee suffered his first defeat
Here Judah Maccabee 4
defeated for the second 3 and his brother Elazar fell battling
defeated Apollonius,
time; his force was routed the elephants.
the Samaria commander. The Temple Mount:
1 and he fell in battle. Site of the Holy Temple.
Kinneret
Judah Maccabee purified the
defiled Temple and restored the
service there. Chanuka
commemorates this event.
5 Beit Tzur:
A Jewish town north of Hebron
Afula Jezreel
Valley Sa 60Shechem 3 (today Karmei Tzur).
From here, the defeated army
ma Mount Baal
ria Maaleh Levona Hatzor
of Lysias retreated back to Syria.
1 2
The Temple
4
Mount 7
Givon
Ariel BinBeit EL Valley Bethlehem
5 Dead Sea
yam Jerusalem
in
Haifa Ayalon Valley:
A valley that stretches to the
Kfar Sava 6 Elazar west of the Jerusalem Hills.
Beit Zacharia Jud Here Judah Maccabee
9 ea 7
60 defeated Gorgias’s large army.
Beit Horon Ascent 8
Beit Tzur
Hadera 8
10
Illustrated by Meir Kahane, Ofra Field School, Consultant: Dr. Hagi Ben-Artzi

Netanya Modi’in Ayalon Valley Hebron


Kiryat Arba Mount He
bron
2 Tel Aviv
Beit El Hills (Gofna Hills): Rechovot
A divided ridge of mountains Sussiya
north of Jerusalem,
where the Hashmonaim
sought refuge when they
fled Modi’in.
This was Judah Maccabee’s 9
primary command center. Beit Horon Ascent: 10
A steep slope between Modi’in:
Modi’in and Jerusalem.
Here Judah Maccabee
The hometown
of Mattityahu and his
11
defeated Seron. sons, where the Yavneh
rebellion against the
Greeks began. Ashdod

11 Kiryat Gat
Yavneh:
A mixed (Jewish-Greek) city near Beersheva
Ashdod. Here the sons of Shimon
Maccabee - Yochanan and Yehuda -
defeated the Seleucid army for the
last time. The Kingdom of Judea
is liberated!
Ashkelon
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Sites of the Maccabees 166-161 BCE

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