His rabbinic education was acquired mainly at Tiberias, in the academy presided over by R. Johanan, with whom his relations were almost those of a son ( Yer.

Its major towns were Tiberias — which was capital of the district — Qadas, Baysan, Acre, Saffuriya and Kabul.

Raymond and Guy finally agreed to attack Saladin at Tiberias, but could not agree on a plan ; Raymond thought a pitched battle should be avoided, but Guy probably remembered the criticism he faced for avoiding battle in 1183, and it was decided to march out against Saladin directly.

He was born in Córdoba, Almoravid Empire ( present-day Spain ) on Passover Eve, 1135, and died in Egypt ( or Tiberias ) on 20th Tevet, December 12, 1204.

Maimonides died on December 12, 1204 ( 20th of Tevet 4965 ) in Fustat, and it is widely believed that he was briefly buried in the study room ( beit hamidrash ) of the synagogue courtyard, and that, soon after, in accordance with his wishes, his remains were exhumed and taken to Tiberias where he was re-interred.

This was chiefly done by Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, in the Tiberias school, based on the oral tradition for reading the Tanakh, hence the name Tiberian vocalization.

This Talmud is a synopsis of the analysis of the Mishnah that was developed over the course of nearly 200 years by the Academies in Israel ( principally those of Tiberias and Caesarea.

One version was compiled by scholars of Israel, primarily of the academies of Tiberias and Caesarea, which was published between about 350-400 CE.

Following a prolonged military confrontation between the parties, the Security Council was again involved in the Israel – Syria situation in 1962 in the light of a report by the Chief of Staff of UNTSO on the military activities in the Lake Tiberias area and in the DMZ.

After a brief seclusion, through the mediation of his wife Cypros and his sister Herodias, Agrippa was given a sum of money by his uncle, Herodias ' husband, Herod Antipas, Tetrarch of Galilee and Perea, and was allowed to take up residence in Tiberias, and received the rank of aedile in that city, with a small yearly income.

His friendship was courted by many of the neighboring kings and rulers, some of whom he housed in Tiberias, which also caused Claudius some displeasure.

Sea of Tiberias is also the name mentioned in Roman texts and in the Jerusalem Talmud, and was adopted into Arabic as ( بحيرة طبريا ).

In the 2nd-10th centuries, Tiberias was the largest Jewish city in the Galilee and the political and religious hub of the Jews of Palestine.

Tiberias was founded sometime around 20 CE in Herodian Tetrarchy of Galilee and Peraea by the Roman Jewish client king Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great.

There is a legend that Tiberias was built on the site of the Israelite village of Rakkat, mentioned in the Book of Joshua ( Joshua 19: 35 ).

In The Antiquities of the Jews, the Roman-Jewish historian Josephus states that a village with hot springs named Emmaus was located near Tiberias.

The prestige of Tiberias was so great that the sea of Galilee soon came to be named the sea of Tiberias ; however, what would now be called Jewish zealots continued to call it ' Yam Ha-Kinerett ', its traditional name.

Where most other cities in the Province of Iudaea were razed, Tiberias was spared because its inhabitants remained loyal to Rome, after Josephus Flavius had surrendered the city to the Roman emperor Vespasian.

The Mishnah along with the Jerusalem Talmud, ( the written discussions of generations of rabbis in the Land of Israel – primarily in the academies of Tiberias and Caesarea ), was probably compiled in Tiberias by Rabbi Judah haNasi in around 200 CE.

In the 6th century Tiberias was still the seat of Jewish religious learning.

He frequently made pilgrimages to Tiberias, even after he had become well known as rector of the Caesarean Academy ( Yer.

), from the town of Tiberias at its southwestern end, called after the Greek name of Tiberius.

The second is when Jesus goes up to Jerusalem for Passover and cures the paralytic, after which He withdraws over the sea of Tiberias.

Following the expulsion of all Jews from Jerusalem after 135 CE, Tiberias and its neighbor Sepphoris became the major Jewish centres.

" The Sanhedrin, the Jewish court, also fled from Jerusalem during the Great Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire, and after several moves eventually settled in Tiberias in about 150 CE.

; 610-628: Jews of Galilee led by Benjamin of Tiberias gain autonomy in Jerusalem after revolting against Heraclius as a joint military campaign with ally Sassanid Empire under Khosrau II and Jewish militias from Persia, but are subsequently massacred.

When Saladin arrived from the taking of Tiberias, and after the Frankish army left Turan, the Muslims began their attack in earnest.

Raymond reluctantly made peace with Guy after this, and Saladin immediately besieged Tiberias, rather than pillage the kingdom as the Crusaders expected.

Lubya belonged to the nahiya (" district ") of Tiberias in 1596, a few decades after the Ottoman Empire won control over the region from the Mamluks.

Soon after his first visit to Palestine and his Zionist conversion, Janco began painting landscapes in optimistic tones, including a general view over Tiberias and bucolic watercolors.

This raises questions, as Tiberias was not founded until approximately 25 years after Herod's death by his son, Herod Antipas, in honor of the Roman Emperor, Tiberius, in AD 20.

commissioned Johanan's pupils Ammi and Assi, who directed the Academy of Tiberias in the Land of Israel, after Eleazar's death, to organize the schools for children in the Palestinian cities ( Yer.

According to The Talmud, Birkat Ram is one of three underground springs, along with Hamat Gader in the southeastern Golan Heights and Hamat in Tiberias, that opened up in The Flood of Noah and didn't close up again after The Flood.

He was sent by his parents to a yeshiva in Tiberias, after which he studied at a French lycée for his secondary education and obtained a degree in Islamic law in Istanbul.

At the time he was a vassal of Ralph of Tiberias, who was exiled from the kingdom after being accused of attempting to assassinate king Amalric II.

" Since 636 CE, Tiberias served as the regional capital, until Bet Shean took its place, following the Rashidun conquest.

The rebels destroyed the cities Diopolis and Tiberias, while Diocesarea is razed to the ground.

In 614, Tiberias was the site, where during the final Jewish revolt against the Byzantine Empire, parts of the Jewish population supported the Persian invaders ; the Jewish rebels were financed by Benjamin of Tiberias, a man of immense wealth ; according to Christian sources, during the revolt Christians were massacred and churches destroyed.

In 1033 Tiberias was again destroyed by an earthquake.

Guy did not agree, and instead the Crusaders marched into a waterless plain, were surrounded by Saladin's army, and were almost completely destroyed at the Battle of Hattin outside Tiberias.

In 1660, in the turmoil following the death of Mulhim Ma ' an, the Druze destroyed Safed and Tiberias, with only a few of the former Jewish residents returning to Safed by 1662.

Lubya ( " bean ") was a Palestinian Arab town located ten kilometers west of Tiberias that was captured and destroyed by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.