Attractions & sights
An excavated site next to Modi'in's Buchman neighbourhood with graves, a bathhouse and a synagogue from the 2nd century BCE, which the excavators believe was ancient Modi'in, home of the Maccabees.
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Umm el-Umdan, Modi'in
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A hilltop site off Route 443 south of Kfar Ruth with Second Temple remains, a Roman fort and two-storey watchtower still standing, and a Byzantine monastery church with mosaics; the view takes in the Jerusalem hills, Samaria and the coastal plain.
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A park of scale models of Israel's landmarks near Latrun, with a free map tour, a puzzle trail and a QR-code navigation game.
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Attractions & sights · Hevel Modiin (nearby sites)
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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