The visitor’s center at Masada, the ancient desert fortress famed for the last stand of Jewish freedom fighters against Roman imperialism, has ironically opened a franchise of the McDonalds global food chain.
After the Roman Empire destroyed Jerusalem and its Temple in the year 70, effectively putting an end to the Great Jewish Revolt, a band of die-hard guerrillas from the Sicarii zealot sect held out at the Masada fortress near the Dead Sea for three years as the last bastion of Jewish independence.… Read the rest of this article…
