Hi,
After spending the morning looking for a Covid-19 antigen check in Katzrin, to see I did not get it from Mindal, I stopped for a moment at Ein-Nashut (Nasut Spring).
It is a really small hike you can walk when you are climbing up to Golan Heights. It starts in a small parking lot on the side of the road, not far north of Katzrin. You can easily recognize it by the big sign call it out.
From the parking lot you start walking on a blue trail mark (the Israeli trail marks are two white lines and another line with a different color in the middle).
The trail cross a small stream that is fed from Ein-Nasut spring and then climbs a bit to the ruins of an ancient Synagogue. The site is one of the nice synagogues Golan Heights with many Jewish motifs engraved in the stone.
If you will walk a couple of meters more you will get to the ruins of an ancient olive press, where you can see the millstones that were used to produce the oil by crushing the olives. The trade route East to the Hauran and the Bashan passed through the Jewish Settlements in Golan Heights and was a main income source for those.
Both sites were the center of a Jewish village dating to the 4th – 6th centuries AD, as many other Jewish settlements on Golan heights from this time.
Not far from is Basalt stone pillars stream (Upper Zavitan stream) that I have wrote you about hiking there no far long time ago.
Take care
Gad
The sign on Ein-Nashut in English in Hebrew.
The start of the trail marked in blue from the parking lot.
Crossing the stream
Looking South to Katzrin
The synagogue
Stone cravings with Jewish motifs.
The oil press
The stream on the way back
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The trail route to Ein-Nashut (Source: IsraelHiking.osm.org.il)