On the northeastern slopes of the Sea of Galilee (or Lake Kinneret as Israelis call it) lies the Majrase–Betiha (Bethsaida Valley) Nature Reserve. This beautiful hiker’s wonderland is infused by the Daliyot, Yehudaya, and Meshushim streams flowing down from the Golan and feeding into the Sea of Galilee just south of the Jordan River inlet. This verdant recreational paradise today once was the location of vast agricultural, industrial, and civic settlements dating from the Iron Age well through the Byzantine period. It is no wonder that the signs designating Tel Beit Tsaida, or Bethsaida, a little more than a […]
