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Ritual baths such as this first-century mikveh found at Gamla, a community in the nearby Golan east of the Galilee, also attest to a Jewish population. Immersion in a mikveh removes impurity. Mikva’ot have been found at Yodefat, Sepphoris and other sites throughout Jewish Galilee.