They are spread throughout their somewhat itsy, bitsy but hugely steeped-in-history country that many folk living elsewhere struggle to find on a world map.

These sites stretch from the furthest point south — Eilat — to the northern borders with Lebanon and Syria, as well as others in the southern region of Lake Kinneret that run up front and close to the Israel-Jordan-Syrian meeting of borders at Hammat Gader.

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