Beit Zur
Battle of Beit Zur
In 164 BCE, in the miraculous, decisive Battle at Bet Tzur, the Jewish forces emerged victorious. With an army of about 50,000 infantry and thirty war elephants, along with cavalry and chariots, Lysias approached Jerusalem from the south and besieged Beth-Zur, eighteen miles from the city and Judah Maccabeus crushed the numerically superior Greeks
Modern Israel works to take care of its weaker populations Organizations like House of Wheels (Beit Hagalgalim), founded in 1979 and dedicated to advancing the integration, cultivating the social and life skills, and empowering disabled people, and Simcha Layeled, which is dedicated to improving the quality of life and social welfare of disabled and seriously ill children in Israel.