Israel
All four of us - Eva, Lauren, Talia and I - visited Israel for two weeks with outstanding guide Rachel Smith, under the auspices of Israel Maven Tours. JJ did a great job for us there.
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Masada, an ancient fortification in the Southern District of Israel, on top of an isolated rock plateau on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea. Herod the Great built palaces for himself on the mountain and fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BCE.
The Siege of Masada by troops of the Roman Empire towards the end of the First Jewish–Roman War ended in the mass suicide of the 960 Jewish rebels and their families holed up there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada
