12km/7.5mi north of Bet Shean is the kibbutz of Newe Ur, occupied by Jews from Iraq and accordingly named after Abraham's home town of Ur in Chaldaea (Mesopotamia). On a hill to the northwest can be seen the remains of the Crusader castle of Belvoir, to which a winding road leads up.

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