# Tiberias <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Hebrew</td><td dir="rtl">טבריה</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Tiberias (Hebrew Tveryah); Arabic Ṭabariyya</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Northern District, Israel</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>32°47′N 35°32′E</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Tiberias is a city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel, founded around 20 CE by Herod Antipas and named for the Roman emperor Tiberius. After the destruction of the Second Temple it became the principal center of Jewish life in Galilee: the Sanhedrin relocated there, much of the Mishnah and the Jerusalem Talmud were compiled in its academies, and the Masoretic vocalization of the Hebrew Bible was developed there. Since the 16th–18th centuries it has been counted among Judaism's Four Holy Cities, alongside Jerusalem, Hebron, and Safed. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Tiberias; Britannica — Tiberias.</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Nachman Ashkenazi (b.1680)]] | Died 06/21/1765 | | [[Yaakov Rosenberg (b.1805)]] | Died 11/12/1884 | | [[Yisroel Rosenberg (b.1813)]] | Died 06/29/1887 | | [[Zohar Isseroff (b.1915)]] | Born ~1915, Died ~1918 | | [[Noam Isseroff (b.1920)]] | Born 01/05/1920 | | [[Alexander Aharon Rosenberg]] | Died |