✡ Maoz Haim Synagogue

The Maoz Haim Synagogue was a former ancient Jewish synagogue and now archeological site, that is located near Maoz Haim, in the Beit She'an region, in the Jezreel Valley area of the Galilee district of northern Israel. Constructed in the third century as a simple Byzantine-era type basilica building, later apsidical, the ruins of which were discovered in February 1974 by Avshalom Ya’aqobi during some unrelated digging near Maoz Haim. The excavations at the site were conducted from February to March 1974 under the direction of the archaeologist Vassilios Tzaferis.