Israel, Horvat Rosh Zayit

Horvat Rosh Zayit, is a site from the Early Israelite Period in the Segev Forest in Lower Galilee, a ten minute drive from home, which Yonatan and I spent an hour exploring this evening. Though partially excavated and with a sign board evident once you find the site, it is not signposted or well known, though it may be the site of Biblical Cabul, which is still recalled in the name of the now-Arab town of Kabul on the plain below, some two kilometres to the south west, in which there were still several Jewish families living in the 16th century. Modern Kabul hosts the tombs of the Jewish scholars and philosophers Abraham ibn Ezra and Judah Halevi.