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 Shefaram  68 pictures
 1.15 minutes HQ video At first, Shefaram was a Jewish town in the Galilee. During the late Roman period (the second century A. D.), it was the place where the Sanhedrin (the Jewish supreme judiciary body) was active for a while, during its wandering from Usha to Beit She'arim and Sepphoris. The Ancient Synagogue  The area between Shefaram and Usha was where R' Judah Ben Baba acted. During Crusader times, a castle stood on the road in order to protect the road leading from Acer to Nazareth. From that castle, called "la safran" by the Crusaders, nothing remained. In the 16th century A. D., that is, at the beginning of Ottoman times, a Jewish settlement was thriving in the place, which continued to exist until the beginning of the previous century. In the first part of the 18th century A.D., Taher Al Umar, a descent of a Bedouin family from Hijaz, established within the Ottoman Empire some kind of a small, independent state, whose center was in Acre (Acer). The castle, whose traces may still be found in the middle of Shefaram, is one of the stronghold used by Al Umar's family to enforce their rule in the Galilee.      Back to Israel Index
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