QUMRAN

KOHANIM CAUTION!!! At the side of the park is a cemetery. You can visit the old city and the cave system without passing by the cemetery.

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- You can hike around the mountains there, and see the caves where the scrolls were found. The hike is really nice, you overlook the Yam Hamelech.

History

-At Qumran, there lived a very frum group of Jews called the Essenes (Isiyim in Hebrew). Throughout Qumran, there are many Mikvahs. Some of the Mikvahs have dividers so that the pure and impure people should not be near each other.

-Qumran is most famous for the discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls in the caves nearby.

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Replica of what the Dead Sea Scrolls look like.

There are many Mikvahs here.

This is a cemetery with over 1000 bodies.

This is where the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered.

The views are amazing.