The ancient remains of a Jewish synagogue at Gamla on the Golan Heights was the site Monday for 250 Jewish children collectively celebrating their bar mitzvah. The children had come to Israel last year. The ceremony was sponsored by the Absorption Ministry, the Habad Hasidim village of Kfar Habad and the Israeli army youth battalions. Gamla, like Massada near the Dead Sea, was a Jewish stronghold in Biblical times. Recent excavations uncovered the remains of an old synagogue.
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