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Tzippori

Left to right: A photo from the exhibition 'Habyta' (Back Home) – The North Returns to Life' at Hula Lake Park during Passover 2025 (Credit Gil Eliyaho); Allancastria deyrollei, a butterfly of the family Papilionidae, being tracked in The Great Butterfly Count, held during Passover 2025 (Credit Moshe Lowdon)
April 10, 2025, 9:54 am
This Passover, count butterflies or see portraits of northerners who are finally back home
Ideas of places to go during the springtime holiday, with plenty that’s free and open to the public
By Jessica Steinberg
The rehabilitated Tzippori river and surrounding area are the location for the April 17-20 Spring Festival of music and nature. (Courtesy: Pnina Zetsler/KKL)
March 28, 2024, 10:59 am
Tzippori Festival to mark stream restoration with music and more
Spring event over Passover break will bring together Jews and Arabs in lower Galilee for nature activities and performances by Ehud Banai and others
By Jessica Steinberg
The Crusader camp near Tzippori in northern Israel (Israel Antiquities Authority/Courtesy)
October 21, 2021, 12:19 pm
First evidence of Crusader war camp discovered in northern Israel
During work to expand a highway near Tzippori, dozens of metal artifacts are found, including horseshoe nails that the Christian invaders used before setting out to battle
By ToI Staff
The cover of 'The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi,' Avi Katz's illustrated work about the Ribal based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1863 poem (Courtesy Avi Katz)
September 30, 2020, 5:03 pm
A missing rabbi, an empty tomb and a caper with the Angel of Death, now for kids
The mysterious tale of 3rd century rabbi Yehoshua Ben Levi is recounted in a new book from illustrator Avi Katz, with help from an American poet and a rogue dig in the Galilee
By Jessica Steinberg
Ancient Byzantine-era winepress discovered in Zippori National Park. (Zvika Tzuk/National Parks Authority)
June 10, 2018, 6:33 pm
Unique Byzantine-era winepresses unearthed in roofed water cistern in Tzippori
The only examples of their kind discovered to date, they are a testament to a flourishing wine trade in the interfaith city
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Destruction in a 2,000-year-old Galilee Roman village and opening of the burial cave exposed by a backhoe. (Nir Distelfeld, Israel Antiquities Authority)
March 6, 2018, 1:50 pm
Antiquities robbers sentenced to jail for destroying 2,000-year-old graves
In light of irrevocable damage to Second Temple Jewish settlement, Israel Antiquities Authority hopes prison terms will prove a deterrent
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
One of the antiquities robbers caught in a sting operation near Tzippori during the weekend of June 10, 2017. (Israel Antiquities Authority)
June 12, 2017, 1:24 pm
Hiker helps stop antiquities-robbing gang in northern Israel
Caught in action after a foot chase, two out of three thieves taken to Nazareth for investigation
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Antiquities thieves exiting the burial cave in northern Israel when caught by IAA inspectors in December 2016. (Nis Distelfeld, Israel Antiquities Authority)
December 14, 2016, 7:28 pm
Three looters busted plundering ancient tomb in Galilee
Suspects caught in the act robbing graves, disturbing interred remains near Roman-era Jewish site mentioned in Talmud
By Ilan Ben Zion
A fresco showing a tiger's tail found in Tzippori, dating from the early second century CE (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
August 10, 2016, 8:03 pm
Rare Roman-era frescoes uncovered in Galilee
Team working at site of ancient Tzippori discover ‘monumental building’ decorated with images of exotic animals
By Stuart Winer
Aharoni Amitai near the inscriptions that were uncovered, January 26, 2016 (Miki Peleg, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)
January 28, 2016, 2:01 am
1,700-year-old rabbis’ tombstones reflect Jewish life in Galilean city
Archaeologists unearth Greek and Aramaic funerary inscriptions from Tzippori, showing strong Jewish presence during period
By ToI Staff
One of the clay pots reconstructed from sherds found at the site near En Zippori at the Lower Galilee. (Courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority)
December 17, 2014, 3:51 pm
Olive oil traces dating back 8,000 years found in Israel
Clay sherds uncovered in Lower Galilee may mark oldest evidence for use of oil in entire Middle East
By ToI Staff
Mona Lisa of the Galilee (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
July 27, 2013, 9:29 am
In bits and pieces: Mosaic splendor at Tzippori
From the Akeda to ‘Mona Lisa of the Galilee,’ the wine drinking contest of Heracles and Dionysus, and the angels telling Sarah and Abraham of their impending parenthod, Tzippori is a wealth of ancient art
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Round Roman tower (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
June 8, 2013, 3:21 pm
Berko Park, aka ancient Tiberias
King Herod Antipas unwittingly built Tiberias directly over a Jewish cemetery. Luckily, some 130 years later, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai decided to purify the place
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
March 25, 2013, 5:04 pm
Woman killed in head-on collision with truck
Initial reports suggest 30-year-old’s vehicle veered into the path of opposing traffic
By Philip Podolsky
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