Kfar Bar'am (other)
Bar'am may refer to: * Kafr Bir'im, a historic village, depopulated in the 1948 Palestinian exodus ** Kfar Bar'am synagogue (or Kafar Ber'im or Berem synagogue), the ruins of two synagogues from the Talmudic period * Kibbutz Bar'am Bar'am ( he, בַּרְעָם, ''lit.'' Son of the People), sometimes spelled as Baram, is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located approximately 300 meters from Israel's border with Lebanon near the ruins of the ancient Jewish village of Kfar Bar' ...

Kafr Bir'im
Kafr Bir'im, also Kefr Berem ( ar, كفر برعم, he, כְּפַר בִּרְעָם), was a former village in Mandatory Palestine, located in modern-day northern Israel, south of the Lebanese border and northwest of Safed. The village was situated above sea level. In ancient times, it was a Jewish village known as Kfar Bar'am, up until the Middle Ages, when it was abandoned by its inhabitants. In the early Ottoman era it was wholly Muslim. During the 19th and 20th centuries, it was noted as a Maronite Christian village. A church overlooking it at an elevation of was built on the ruins of an older church destroyed in the earthquake of 1837. In 1945, 710 people lived in Kafr Bir'im, most of them Christians. On September 16, 1953 the village was destroyed by the Israeli Air Force, in order to prevent the villagers' return and in defiance of an Israeli Supreme Court decision recognizing the villager's right to return to their homes. By 1992, the only standing structure wa ...
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Kfar Bar'am Synagogue
Kfar Baram synagogue ( he, כְּפַר בַּרְעָם), also Kafar Berem synagogue, is the ruins of two ancient Jewish synagogues at the site of Kafr Bir'im, a depopulated Palestinian village which in medieval times was the Jewish village of Kfar Bar'am. Today, it is located in Northern Israel, 3 kilometers from the Lebanese border. The façade of the 3rd-century synagogue faces south, towards Jerusalem, as the custom of most synagogues, and was replete with a covered portico containing six stone columns. It was first identified as a synagogue in modern times in 1852 – along with other similar remains in Galilee – by Edward Robinson in his ''Biblical Researches in Palestine''. Etymology The name is often assumed to mean "Son of the People," incorporating the Aramaic word ''bar'' בר, meaning "son" and the Hebrew word ''am'' עם meaning "people". However, if like at Shfar'am, both elements are Hebrew, the name could derive from a literary Hebrew word בר indicating clea ...
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