You belong to a group of settlers who decide to go live on the Golan even though Jews have not lived there for many years.  You and your group purchase a piece of land and name the place"Golan BeBashan" and settle there.  A year later your group buys another piece of land from the Bedouins and builds another settlement there.  Unfortunately, some years later your entire group is forced to leave the Golan because of Arab riots.  What is the name of your group?

Hint, hint:  This happened at the end of the 19th century.

Go to the Golan Heights historical overview  to find your identity.  Click on the best answer!
 
 

•  The soldiers of Judah Maccabee

•   The heroes of Gamla

• The society of Bnei Yehuda

Answer to Question 3
 
 

The soldiers of Judah Maccabee-- Zman Acher!  (This is a different period in history...)  "In the Second Temple period, the exiled Jews of Babylonia  returned to their homes, and lived among the peoples ruling the Golan.  Jewish communities in the Golan were attacked by their gentile neighbors.  Judah  Maccabee launched a rescue expedition and delivered them.

Answer to Question 3
 

The heroes of Gamla-- Zman Acher again!   (This is a still a different period in history...)   "At the end of the Hasmonean period, King Alexander Yanai conquered the Golan and settled it with Jews.  Jewish settlement in the central Golan existed continuously since then for a period of 700 hundred years. The district capital was Gamla, which fought with supreme heroism in the Great Revolt, losing lO,OOO of its fighting sons in battle in defense of the Golan

Answer to Question 3

The society of Bnei Yehuda-- Zman Nachon!  (You've got the right period in history!)   "In 1886, the "Bnei Yehuda" society of Safed purchased a plot of land in Ramataniya village in central Golan (4 Km. west-north of Keshet). They named their settlement "Golan BeBashan" and settled there for about a year.

 In 1887, they purchased the lands of the Bedouin village Bir Ashkum (between the new Bnei Yehuda and Ein Gev. The Bnei Yehuda members held on to the land with supreme stubbornness, until two of the last settlers
were murdered in the riots of 1920, thus bringing an end to the settlement."
(Information is from the History of the Golan Heights page at http://www.golan.org.il/history-short.htm)
 
 
 
 
 
 

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