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Yavne יבנה

Places

City on the coastal plain. After 70 CE, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai founded an academy there that preserved Jewish learning after the fall of the Second Temple.

Illustration from the book. Photographs, where shown, are from Wikimedia Commons, with author and license beside each. Click a photograph to enlarge it.

Sources

  • The book Israel NOWlej by Richard J. Koret, glossary, page 208.