Land of Covenant, Conquest, and Giants: The Hula Valley is woven into the Jewish story, its soil steeped in legend. To the north rises Har Dov, associated symbolically with Abraham’s covenantal promise of the land, though the exact site of Brit Bein HaBetarim—the Covenant of the Pieces—remains unknown. Nearby lie the Waters of Merom, where Joshua led the Israelites to victory against a formidable Canaanite coalition.

David Shuv was an Orthodox rabbi and a Proto-Zionist and was among the founders of the city of Rosh Pinna. Below is his incredible story!

Decades before the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, the establishment of a Jewish state embodying Zionist ideology had already started.