Today, we're gonna go through the Bethlehem of Galilee.
That's right. Not Bethlehem in Judea.
Not Bethlehem in Ephrathah or Judah.
Not next to Jerusalem, but right here,
eight miles from Nazareth in Jezreel Valley.
Bethlehem of Galilee.
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The story goes all the way back to Joshua 18:13 [correction],
where Joshua comes to the children of Israel--
There are still seven tribes.
They have not gotten their allotment--
and he tells them:
How long will you neglect to possess the land
which the Lord God of your Father's has given to you?
So he sends three men from each tribe to make a survey.
And they come back and they throw lots.
The tribe of Zebulun receives, in his lot,
12 cities, and one of them:
Bethlehem of Galilee.
What's interesting is this Bethlehem of Galilee
is located in the Jezreel Valley.
And it's not the same as the Bethlehem of Judah.
Archaeological findings suggest that during the early Roman times,
this very city was pretty prosperous.
Now, during the Ottoman Empire,
this city had only 20 families and two bachelors.
And we know this according to the tax document
that they found from the Ottoman Empire.
Now, fast-forward...
the German Templars that came to Israel,
some of them settled right here,
and they built Templar structures
which can be seen here today.
17th April, 1948,
the Jewish paramilitary force, the Haganah,
recaptured the city, and Jews resettled it,
making it a moshav.
Last year, the Israeli Bureau of Statistics
have made a survey of how many people live here.
Guess what.
777.
So let's think about it for a moment.
When Zebulun came here with his tribe,
what did they use for weapons?
Well, look at that.
We've got an archery park.
Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
(Sergio) Let's go shoot some bows.
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In this very area,
the Zebulun used to hunt for food.
And Ibzan, the Israeli judge
who had thirty sons and thirty daughters,
that's where he hunted for food.
(Sergio gasps)
Beast!
(Rhoda) Now we can make kosher bacon out of it?
We just spoke to one of the locals,
and he said that when the Israeli settlers came here,
that they have put all the ruins under cement,
buried them, built new houses over the old ruins,
so everything is under the ground.
He said there's a whole settlement,
a whole village, under the ground.
There is a law in Israel that if you find ruins,
you have to report it,
but a lot of times people want to build.
They want to move on. They don't want to report it.
So, unfortunately, a lot of those ruins
found under the ground, whether in Nazareth,
whether here in Bethlehem Galilee,
whether in Jerusalem, any place in Israel,
every inch of it, there is history,
and we don't have all of it.
Yeah. I'm a little dizzy.
Let's see how fast we can turn.
(Sergio screaming) (Rhoda laughing)
- Feel like a kid yet? - Oh, stop.
Okay. Okay. Okay.
All right. All right.
Do you want to throw up right there behind that tree?
- Yeah. - Really?
So, this is the only thing in the area.
We have one hour to wait for the bus.
We're just gonna have to go there.
Yeah. You no longer need to talk to a person.
It's almost like a science fiction movie.
Why interact with a person when you could talk to a machine?
You know, very soon you'll get
a right hand arm identification.
See. There you go.
And then maybe a forehead.
Do you want to order?
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Sorry, Charlie. There was nothing else.
I would rather starve than eat here. Starve!
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