Hamaam, Israel

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Hamaam (Arabic: حمام; Hebrew: חַמָּם), or Wadi Hamam, is an Arab village in northern Israel, located near the Sea of Galilee, at the foot of Mount Nitai and across the Wadi Hamam valley from Mount Arbel.

[2] It contains one fairly modern mosque and the trail head for the steep ascent of Mount Arbel.

[3] It was registered as Khirbet el-Wereidat in the PEF's 1870 Survey of Western Palestine,[4] from which the modern Hebrew name-Hurbat Vradim, also spelled Hurvat/Horvat Veradim-was derived.

[citation needed] The site was excavated between 2007 and 2012 by a team under dig director Uzi Leibner of Hebrew University and yielded the remains of a large Roman-period Jewish village that was abandoned after a decades-long process of decline around the year 400, at the beginning of the Byzantine period.

[3] The fortifications atop Mount Nitai, which is a nature reserve and off limits for visitors, have also been surveyed and partially excavated with the purpose of dating them and placing them in a historical context.