Shimon ben Gamliel

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Shimon ben Gamliel

Shimon ben Gamliel (c. 10 BCE - 70 CE

Common Era

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) was a Tannaist

Tannaim

The Tannaim were the Rabbinic sages whose views are recorded in the Mishnah, from approximately 70-200 CE. The period of the Tannaim, also referred to as the Mishnaic period, lasted about 130 years....
sage and leader of the Jew

Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
ish people. He succeeded his father Gamliel I as the Nasi

Nasi

Nasi? is a Hebrew language title meaning prince, in Biblical Hebrew, or president, in Hebrew_language#Modern_Israeli_Hebrew....
of the Sanhedrin

Sanhedrin

The Sanhedrin was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in the Land of Israel.The Great Sanhedrin was the supreme court of ancient Israel....
after his father's death in 50 CE and just before the destruction of the Second Temple

Second Temple

The Second Temple was the reconstructed Temple in Jerusalem which stood between 516 BCE and 70 CE. During this time, it was the center of Judaism worship, which focused on the sacrifices known as the korbanot....
. The traditional view is that he was killed by the Romans

Ancient Rome

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as one of the Ten Jewish Martyrs

Ten Martyrs

The Ten Martyrs refers to a group of ten rabbis living during the era of the Mishnah who were martyred by the Roman Empire in the period after the Siege of Jerusalem ....
.

He was a direct descendant of King David.

His tomb, located in Kafr Kanna near the Golani Junction

Golani Junction

The Golani Junction is a junction in Israel in the Upper Galilee, east of Haifa and west of Tiberias, between highway 65 and 77. The Golani Brigade Museum commemorating the Golani Brigade is situated there....
in the lower Galilee

Galilee

Galilee , is a large region in northern Israel which overlaps with much of the administrative North District of the country. Traditionally divided into Upper Galilee , Lower Galilee , and Western Galilee , extending from Dan to the north, at the base of Mount Hermon, along Mount Lebanon to the ridges of Mount Carmel and Mount Gilboa t...
of northern Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
, has remained an important site for Jewish pilgrims for almost 2,000 years.

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