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Sataf, underground springs and ancient terraced irrigation system
Sataf is a village near Jerusalem abandoned by its Arabian inhabitants during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Now this is a national park, located on the eastern slope of Mount Eitan (788 m above sea level) on an area of 67,000 square meters. m. It starts from the upper tier, where there is a parking lot, a cafe, toilets, an observation deck and descends in giant terraces into the Nahal Sorek valley
Since ancient times, starting from the Chalcolithic era (4.5-3.5 thousand years BC), people who were successfully engaged in agriculture already lived here.
The basis for this was two inexhaustible sources of water, Sataf and Bihora.
Now you can see with your own eyes a restored working model of ancient agriculture and irrigation systems.
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