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 Chorazim  106 pictures
 2.5 minutes HQ video Traces of a Jewish town which is referred to in the Talmud (Minchot 85:71), as famous for the good, abundant wheat growing in its fields. In the New Testament, Chorazim is referred to (Matthew 11:21; Luke 10:13) as the town which Jesus denounced , along with Beit Tzeida and Kfar Nahum (Caper Naum). In Ausebius' Onomatic, Korazim is referred to as a destroyed town. The fortress  The town is about 100 acres of size, divided into five boroughs. The synagogue is in the center of town, and it is part of the central borough. There are additional western, southern, eastern, and northern boroughs. The town was founded either at the beginning of the first or second century A. D. During the Mishna and Talmud period, which took place in the third or fourth century A. D., the town significantly developed, and most of the traces are dated from that time. In the fifth or sixth century, the town was rehabilitated, and many improvement and changed took place in the synagogue, as well as in other structures. The town was blooming again in the eighth century A. D., and the various structures were greatly improved and re-innovated. Following a stagnation lasting hundreds of years, the settlement re-established in the 13th century. A traveler who toured the area in the 16th century, related of Jewish fishermen who lived in Chorazim. Afterwards, the community in town was small and hardly active. The community existed, undergoing changes, until the beginning of the 20th century. The Synagogue    The Central Square  The Central Borrough  The Olive Press The Western Borrough  Homes with Ritual Baths 
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