Tel Goren

Immediately north of the kibbutz of En Gedi, running from west to east, is the valley of the Nahal Arugot. North of this again, near the shores of the Dead Sea, are large recently planted palm- groves and, a little way inland, Tel Goren. Northeast of this, on the edge of the palm-groves, is the synagogue of the fifth settlement at En Gedi, with a mosaic pavement depicting several pairs of birds in the center and in the corners, together with the star of David and an inscription of which eighteen lines survive.