And all this just a short walk away from the wreck of a turretless Syrian army-owned blast from the past German manufactured Panzer 4 tank! The Byzantine church was discovered in the late 1960s during road construction in the eastern portion of Lake Kinneret.

And the Panzer 4 was uncovered only in recent years with the further development of a nearby national park.

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