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Chorazin (Greek: Χοραζίν / k oʊ ˈ r eɪ z ɪ n /; also Chorazain) or Korazim (Hebrew: כורזים; also Chorizim) was an ancient village in the Roman and Byzantine periods, best known from the Christian Gospels.
The term Korazim Plateau is used to define a geomorphological feature set between the Hula Basin and the Sea of Galilee. It is an elevated pressure-ridge within the Dead Sea Transform (DST) which acted as a barrier against the waters of the Mediterranean when these flooded the lower-lying part of the DST, between what are now the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea basins, during the Pliocene ...
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The village was founded in 1983 as a moshav, but after it merged with Ma'of it became a community settlement.It is found just north of the Sea of Galilee.It is named after ancient Chorazin, mentioned in the New Testament (Matthew 11:21), now the site of a much-visited archaeological park, which is located about 1 km east of the modern village.
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Discovered at Umm el-Umdan, a site between Modi'in and Latrun, is the oldest synagogue within modern Israel that has been found to date, which existed between the end of the 2nd and the late 1st century BCE, during the Hasmonean period. [3]
The Or Torah Synagogue, sometimes the Ohr Torah Synagogue, [1] also known as the Tunisian Synagogue in Acre, [1] [2] the Djerba Synagogue, [citation needed] and the Jariva, [3] [clarification needed] is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 13 Kaplan Street, in Acre, in the Northern District of Israel.
The apse, where the Torah Shrine had previously stood in the first phase of the synagogue, was further modified in the 6th century to include a raised platform enclosed by a chancel screen which may have been used to emphasize the sanctity of the Torah shrine area as compared to the rest of the synagogue or the congregation. [4]