Zorah

Zorah (Hebrew: צרעה) or Tzorah (pronounced [tsoʁˈ(ʔ)a]), was a biblical town in the Judaean Foothills.

Zorah was mentioned together with Ajalon in the Amarna letters as a city attacked by the Apiru.

Zorah has been identified with the biblical Zoreah (Joshua 15:33), and is the birthplace of Samson.

Conder and Kitchener, describing the site in 1881, said that, with the exception of the olive groves to the north of the village, the low hill on which the village lies is "bare and white," a place now planted with a pine forest by the Jewish National Fund.

[4] Kibbutz Tzora is now located nearby, at the foot of Zorah mountain, on its southern side.

A hewn altar found near the site of Zorah