Other Sights around the Lake

Continuing eastward from Vered haGalil (see Getting Around above) along the road for 2.5 km (look for the orange, not white, sign to Korazim), you will find the ruins of the Jewish town of Korazim, dating from the Talmudic period (3rd-4th century AD). Like so much of the this region, the bare and Railing landscape is strewn with the dark basalt rubble of what were once streets and clustered dwellings. The remains display a basic village layout of the time: housing quarters centered around 3 paved public courtyard, and a synagogue with some detailed chunks of ornamental pediment and (reconstructed) interior cornice. (Tel. 93 49 82. Open Sun.-Thurs. 8am-5pm, Fri. 8am-4pm. Closes one hour earlier in the winter. Admission NIS7.50, students NIS5.65).

The low water level of the Kinneret in 1985-86 had one serendipitous benefit- -he discovery of an ancient boat off the beach of Kibbutz Ginnosar, just north of Tiberias. The boat was found under a segment of newly exposed lakebed. Its d f, which had turned to mush after centuries of marinating in mud, was encased in a fiberglass frame and hauled to shore. The boat has been restored to near-pristine condition, and has been dated at 100 BC-100 AD. It rests in a glass tank filled with water, where it will undergo nine years of cosmetic repair. Noting its age, some Christians have dubbed it “the Jesus boat.”