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Taglit Birthright Israel 2010 What is Taglit Birthright Israel? Taglit-Birthright Israel provides the gift of educational, first-time trips to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26. Under 26 and Jewish? www.birthrightisrael.com Syria is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest. Tel Goded Caves are caves and passageways used during Bar Kochba Revolt. This revolt, which took place merely 60 years after the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple, forced many Jews to leave Israel and in many ways ushered in the Middle Ages. In preparation for the revolt, the Jews dug tunnels and mines as places of refuge and escape. It was from these caves that the followers of Bar Kochba conducted their guerilla attacks against the Romans. The Bedouins are a predominantly desert-dwelling Arab ethnic group (previously nomadic, currently mostly settled) found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via the Western Desert, Sinai, and Negev to the Arabian Desert. Massada is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the South District of Israel on top of an isolated rock plateau on the eastern edge of the Judean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea. After the First Jewish-Roman War a siege of the fortress by troops of the Roman Empire led to the mass suicide of the Sicarii rebels, who ...