Attractions & sights
A Byzantine-era building with a sheikh's tomb in the Ben Shemen forest, about 800 m from the Maccabean Graves, which some 19th-century scholars took for the Hasmonean family tomb; today some Haredi visitors venerate it as the tomb of Matityahu.
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Horvat HaGardi (Sheikh Gharbawi)
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The moshav on the edge of the Ben Shemen forest that Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach founded in 1974; it runs a Carlebach tourism centre with Friday fairs, group visits and Shabbat hospitality, and has Byzantine monastery remains.
Attractions & sights · Hevel Modiin (nearby sites)
A red, white and gold marble Thai pagoda in the Ben Shemen forest near Mitzpe Modiim, a gift from the people of Thailand for Israel's 50th anniversary.
Attractions & sights · Hevel Modiin (nearby sites)
A family visitor centre at a silver workshop in Kfar Daniel: you walk over a gallery with eight explanation points and watch the craftsmen turn silver grains into finished pieces.
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