Hamaam, Israel#Ancient synagogue

In 1948, some of the Arab inhabitants of Wadi El Hamam fled to Lebanon.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2009/7/13/a-journey-home|title = A Journey Home}} It contains one fairly modern mosque and the trail head for the steep ascent of Mount Arbel.

Khirbet Wadi Hamam is an archaeological site on the outskirts of Hamaam. It was registered as Khirbet el-Wereidat in the PEF's 1870 Survey of Western Palestine,[http://www.markziese.com/stories/2015/8/5/debouchery], accessed in January 2017 from which the modern Hebrew name-Hurbat Vradim, also spelled Hurvat/Horvat Veradim-was derived.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}} The site was excavated between 2007 and 2012 by a team under dig director Uzi Leibner of Hebrew University and yielded the remains of a large Roman-period Jewish village that was abandoned after a decades-long process of decline around the year 400, at the beginning of the Byzantine period.Uzi Leibner, [https://www.academia.edu/23672704/Uzi_Leibner_Excavations_at_Khirbet_Wadi_Hamam_Lower_Galilee_the_Synagogue_and_the_Settlement_Journal_of_Roman_Archaeology_23_pp._220-237 Excavations at Khirbet Wadi Hamam (Lower Galilee): the synagogue and the settlement], Journal of Roman Archaeology 23 (2010), pp. 220-237. Accessed 18 July 2019. The village was situated at the foot of Mount Nitai and thus on the ancient road connecting the central Galilee, through Wadi Hamam, with the Sea of Galilee.

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An ancient synagogue exists on the site with a partially preserved mosaic floor.

The fortifications atop Mount Nitai, which is a nature reserve and off limits for visitors, have also been surveyed and partially excavated with the purpose of dating them and placing them in a historical context.{{cite web |url= https://overseas.huji.ac.il/_Uploads/dbsAttachedFiles/Khirbet_Wadi_Hamam_2011.pdf |title= Archaeological Excavations at Khirbet Wadi Hamam – A Roman Period Village in the Eastern Lower Galilee, Israel: Summer 2011 |publisher= Hebrew University |date= 2011 |access-date= 16 January 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150705205720/https://overseas.huji.ac.il/_Uploads/dbsAttachedFiles/Khirbet_Wadi_Hamam_2011.pdf |archive-date= 5 July 2015 |url-status= dead }}

• Ancient synagogues in the Palestine region - refers to the entire Palestine region/Land of Israel
• Ancient synagogues in Israel - refers to the modern State of Israel
• Arab localities in Israel
• Al-Khisas, Hula Valley, the original pre-1948 village of the Wadi Hamam inhabitants
• 'Akbara, where inhabitants of Al-Khisas were forcibly evacuated to in 1949 until agreeing to resettlement in Wadi Hamam
• Al-Muftakhira, Hula Valley, mentioned by W. Khalidi as the original pre-1948 village of the inhabitants{{dubious|Not Al-Khisas? Also Hula area-so maybe from both? Or confusion?|date=July 2019}}

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