sentences:  By the mid-2nd century, the village had become the seat of the rabbinic synod under Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi.The site is situated on the spur of a hill about half a kilometer long and 200 meters wide, and lies in the southern extremity of the Lower Galilee mountains, facing the western end of the Jezreel Valley, east of Daliat el-Carmel, south of Kiryat Tivon, and west of Ramat Yishai.It rises above sea level at its highest point.