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Founded c.AD 70, Zefat is referred to as Tzefiya in the Talmud . Flavius Josephus, a Jewish historian and soldier, built fortifications that later formed the foundations of a 12th-century Crusader castle built by the Knights Templars; its ruins still stand.

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