Meron, Israel

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branches off the road to Akko.

Simeon Bar Yohai, one of the leaders of the Bar Kochba rising, was buried in Meron. He is credited in Jewish tradition with the authorship of the Kabbalistic work known as the "Zohar" ("Splendor"), which in fact was written in Spain in 1270. In his honor thousands of Jews come every year in spring to this place of pilgrimage and celebrate the festivity of Rashbi Hilula with a great procession, singing and dancing (April/May).

History

Joshua was victorious over a number of kings here (Joshua 11,7). During the Bar Kochba rebellion in the second century A.D., the last Jewish rising against the Romans, Rabbi Simeon Bar Yohai and his son Eleazer hid in a cave which is shown to visitors at Peki'in, in the valley of the same name on the west side of Mount Meron.