Kafr Kanna

Kafr Kanna is an Arab town, in Galilee, part of the Northern District of Israel. It is related to the New Testament village of Cana, wherein Jesus became water into wine. In 2017 its populace became 21,967. Archaeological excavations with the aid of the Israel Antiquities Authority uncovered remains relationship from the Neolithic to the Mamluk intervals. Evidence for a huge Early Bronze Age agreement turned into excavated adjoining to the perennial Kanna spring, overlaying a domain relationship to the Early Chalcolithic Period. A fortification wall indicates that the agreement became fortified.

Kana was cited in the Amarna letters, and become known within the instances of the Roman-Jewish historian Josephus. On the outskirts of the current metropolis is the tomb of the Jewish sage, rabbi Simeon ben Gamliel, the Nasi of the Sanhedrin who became president of the Sanhedrin in 50 CE. His tomb has remained a Jewish pilgrimage web site over the centuries. Under the guideline of the Ottoman Empire, the village flourished inside the 16th century, as it lay at the western exchange path between Egypt and Syria.