After his service in Ba'albek, Anushtakin was briefly made walī of Caesarea (Qaysariya), a port city in northern Palestine,[1][2] which contemporary sources stated he governed well.[16] He was promoted again in 1023 to mutawalī ḥarb (military governor) of Jund Filastin (province of Palestine).[6][17] That same year, he issued an order forbidding anyone from harming the Franciscan friars of Jerusalem.[16]