Shulamit Fall at Nahal David

Nahal Arugot

An ibex at the Ein Gedi nature reserve

Ein Gedi (עין גדי) is an oasis located on the east of the Dead Sea, close to Masada and the caves of Qumran. Location 31°27′N 35°23′E. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 440 KB) Shulamit waterfall, En Gedi, Israel Description: Shulamit Waterfall in Nahal David, En Gedi, Israel Der Schulamit-Wasserfall im Nachal David in der Oase von En Gedi am Toten Meer (Israel) Source: Photo taken by Grauesel Date: created May... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x1600, 440 KB) Shulamit waterfall, En Gedi, Israel Description: Shulamit Waterfall in Nahal David, En Gedi, Israel Der Schulamit-Wasserfall im Nachal David in der Oase von En Gedi am Toten Meer (Israel) Source: Photo taken by Grauesel Date: created May... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1072x1620, 335 KB) Nahal Arugot, En Gedi, Israel Description: Bushes in Nahal Arugot at the oasis of En Gedi (Dead Sea, Israel) Büsche im Nachal Arugot in der Oase von En Gedi am Toten Meer (Israel) Source: Photo taken by... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1072x1620, 335 KB) Nahal Arugot, En Gedi, Israel Description: Bushes in Nahal Arugot at the oasis of En Gedi (Dead Sea, Israel) Büsche im Nachal Arugot in der Oase von En Gedi am Toten Meer (Israel) Source: Photo taken by... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 656 KB) Summary Ibex at Ein Gedi, Israel (I took the picture in 2004. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 656 KB) Summary Ibex at Ein Gedi, Israel (I took the picture in 2004. ... Species Capra ibex Capra nubiana Capra pyrenaica Capra sibiria Capra walie See also Ibex (vehicle) ifor the specialist off-road vehicle, and the Ibex Valley. ... Oasis in the Libyan part of the Sahara For other uses, see Oasis (disambiguation). ... anthony wants to give marah muckler a little fuckler in a bush in other words get un her oants and do a dance ... Combatants Jewish Zealots Roman Empire Commanders Elazar ben Yair Lucius Flavius Silva Strength 960 15,000 Casualties 953 Unknown, if any Masada (a romanization of the Hebrew מצדה, Metzada, from מצודה, metzuda, fortress) is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the South District of Israel on... Qumran (Hebrew:חירבת קומראן Khirbet Qumran) is located on a dry plateau about a mile inland from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea in Israel. ...

It is known for its caves, springs, and its rich diversity of flora and fauna. Ein Gedi is mentioned several times in biblical writings, for example, in the Song of Songs; "My beloved is unto me as a cluster of henna flowers in the vineyards of Ein Gedi" (1:14). Accorded to Jewish tradition, David hid from Saul in the caves here; "And David went up from thence, and dwelt in the strongholds of Ein Gedi" (Samuel 1 24:1). Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico A cave is a natural underground void large enough for a human to enter. ... A natural spring on Mackinac Island in Michigan. ... Song of Solomon is also the title of a novel by Toni Morrison. ... David and Goliath by Caravaggio, c. ... Saul (שאול המלך) (or Shaul) (Hebrew: שָׁאוּל, Standard Tiberian  ; asked for or borrowed) is a figure identified in the Books of Samuel as having been the first king of the ancient Kingdom of Israel. ...

A kibbutz, founded in 1956, is located about a kilometer from the oasis. It offers various tourist attractions and takes advantage of the local weather patterns and the abundance of natural water to cultivate out-of-season produce. Prior to the founding of the kibbutz, the Ein Gedi area had not been permanently inhabited for 500 years. Kibbutz Dan, near Qiryat Shemona, in the Upper Galilee, 1990s A kibbutz (Hebrew: קיבוץ; plural: kibbutzim: קיבוצים, gathering or together) is an Israeli collective intentional community. ...

Ein Gedi National Park

Ein Gedi National Park was founded in 1972 and is one of the most important reserves in Israel. The park is situated on the eastern border of the Judean Desert, on the Dead Sea coast, and covers an area of 6,250 acres. The elevation of the land ranges from the level of the Dead Sea at 418 meters (1,371 ft) below sea level to the plateau of the Judean Desert at 200 meters above sea level. Desert hills in southern Judea, looking east from the town of Arad Judea or Judaea (יהודה Praise, Standard Hebrew Yəhuda, Tiberian Hebrew Yəhûḏāh) is a term used for the mountainous southern part of historic Palestine, an area now divided... anthony wants to give marah muckler a little fuckler in a bush in other words get un her oants and do a dance ...

Ein Gedi National Park includes two spring-fed streams with flowing water year-round: David Stream and Arugot Stream. Two other springs, the Shulamit and Ein Gedi springs, also flow in the reserve. Together, the springs generate approximately three million cubic meters of water per year. Much of the water is used for agriculture or is bottled for consumption.

The park is a sanctuary for many types of plant, bird and animal species. The vegetation includes plants and trees from the Tropical, Desert, Mediterranean and Steppian regions, such as Sodom apple, acacia, jujube and poplar. The many species of resident birds are supplemented by over 200 additional species during the migration periods in the spring and fall. Mammal species include the ibex and the hyrax. Species Capra ibex Capra nubiana Capra pyrenaica Capra sibiria Capra walie See also Ibex (vehicle) ifor the specialist off-road vehicle, and the Ibex Valley. ... Genera Procavia Heterohyrax Dendrohyrax A hyrax (in South African English: klipdassie) is any of four species of fairly small, thickset, herbivorous mammals in the order Hyracoidea. ...

In the summer of 2005, nearly two-thirds of the oasis burned to the ground after a tourist dropped a lit cigarette onto the park grounds. Bitterroot National Forest wildfire A wildfire, also known as a wildland fire, forest fire, vegetation fire, grass fire, brush fire, peat fire (gambut in Indonesia), bushfire (in Australasia), or hill fire, is an uncontrolled fire often occurring in wildland areas, but which can also consume houses or agricultural resources. ... A lit filtered cigarette will burn to ash from one end. ...

The botanic garden

In the kibbutz area, a botanical garden was established covering an area of 100 dunams (100,000 m²). There you can find more than 900 species of plants from all over the world. It became a formal botanical garden in 1994. Inside the United States Botanic Garden Inside the Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden (Brazil), 1890 Botanical gardens (in Latin, hortus botanicus) grow a wide variety of plants primarily categorized and documented for scientific purposes, but also for the enjoyment and education of visitors, a consideration that has become essential to... A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum is a unit of area. ...

History

The oldest archeological finds at Ein Gedi include a temple and hundreds of copper and ivory ceremonial vessels dating from the Chalcolithic period (4000 years BCE). The Chalcolithic (Greek khalkos + lithos copper stone) period, also known as the Eneolithic (Aeneolithic) or Copper Age period, is a phase in the development of human culture in which the use of early metal tools appeared alongside the use of stone tools. ...

The remains of a pool and living quarters indicate that members of the Essene sect may have inhabited the area above Ein Gedi during the first century CE. This is supported by the writings of the Roman historian Pliny the Elder. The Essenes (Issiim) were a Jewish religious sect of Zadokites that flourished from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century AD. The name Essene, itself, is either a version of the Greek word for Holy, or various Aramaic dialect words for pious, and is probably not what the... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19c portrait. ...

Other finds, as well as writings by Pliny, Simon Bar Kokhba and Josephus Flavius, indicate that the first Jewish settlement began in the seventh century BCE and lasted until some time after the destruction of the First Temple by Nebuchadrezzar of Babylonia in 586 BCE. The colony was reestablished in the fifth century BCE and again during the Second Temple period in the second century BCE. This period of Jewish habitation lasted intermittently for 700 years, until the end of the Byzantine empire around 550 CE, when the settlement was destroyed by fire and abandoned. Ein Gedi was developed extensively during this time and the remains of agricultural terraces, cisterns and aqueducts can still be seen. This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... Josephus, also known as Flavius Josephus (c. ... Solomons Temple was the first Jewish temple in Jerusalem which functioned as a religious focal point for worship and the sacrifices known as the korbanot in ancient Judaism. ... A coin that might depict Nebuchadnezzar II Nebuchadnezzar II is perhaps the best known ruler of Babylon in the Chaldean Dynasty, who reigned ca. ... Babylonia, named for its capital city, Babylon, was an ancient state in the south part of Mesopotamia (in modern Iraq), combining the territories of Sumer and Akkad. ... A stone (2. ...

The ruins of an ornate synagogue dating from the Byzantine era and mosaics with Hebrew and Aramaic inscriptions have been extensively restored and can be viewed in the Ein Gedi National Park. Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent c. ... Hebrew redirects here. ... Aramaic is a group of Semitic languages with a 3,000-year history. ...

Between the 13th century and the Israeli War of Independence, Ein Gedi was inhabited at various times by both Jews and Bedouin Arabs. Combatants Egypt Syria Transjordan  Lebanon Saudi Arabia Iraq Holy War Army Arab Liberation Army  Israel Commanders Glubb Pasha Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni† Hasan Salama† Fawzi al-Qawuqji Yaakov Dori Yigael Yadin Strength Egypt: 10,000 initially rising to 20,000 Iraq: 5,000 initially rising to 15,000–18... A Bedouin man resting on a hillside at Mount Sinai Bedouin, derived from the Arabic ( ‎), a generic name for a desert-dweller, is a term generally applied to Arab nomadic pastoralist groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via...

In April 1849, Captain William Lynch led an American expedition down the Jordan River. Upon "discovering" Ein Gedi, he renamed it George Washington Spring. 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the Jordan River and its valley in western Asia. ... George Washington (February 22, 1732–December 14, 1799)[1] led Americas Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and was later elected the first President of the United States. ...