Caves of the Lower Galilee

The Hideout System at Ein Mahel

Ein Mahel

The Ein Mahel hideout system is defined as a medium-sized cave (total length 91 m) consisting of a series of rooms and passages that were hewn by people in the second or third century CE. The hideout system was exposed in the middle of an olive grove, near the village of Ein Mahel in the Nazareth Hills. The entrance to the system was located and broken open in early 2014 by antiquities robbers.

Arbel - Cave Complex West of the Fortress

Mount Arbel

Existing spaces and several more destroyed spaces, spread over about 85 m, on several levels, at the base of the upper cliff of Mount Arbel, west of the Qal'at ibn Ma'an fortress.

Karmiel Karst Fissure

Karmiel

During ground preparation work for construction on the southern side of the Ramat Alon neighborhood in Karmiel, a small karst space was discovered in which many cave deposits stand out. After the space was discovered, the quarrying of an elongated rock step running along the southern side of the street was completed. Today the space is exposed in this rock step.

Cave 36

Mount Nitai

Cave 36 is a medium-sized cave consisting of several passages and rooms that developed by phreatic dissolution processes (based on: well-developed dissolution domes, passages with an elliptical or rounded profile) in a northwest direction.

The cave was surveyed in the summer of 2010 by Boaz Langford, Mika Ullman and Yoav Farhi, as part of a cave survey on Mount Nitai. The survey was conducted as a side project of the excavation of the Mount Nitai wall and Horvat Hamam, led by Uzi Leibner.