Kawkab al-Hawa (كوكب الهوا)

Place

Museum of the Palestinian People (MPP)

Place Name

Place Description

A historic Palestinian village in the Baysan subdistrict, situated on a hill approximately 300 meters above sea level with a dramatic drop toward the Jordan Valley, overlooking the Jordan River to the east and Lake Tiberias to the northeast and incorporating the remains of the Crusader fortress of Belvoir. Its agricultural lands outside the fortress supported cereals, vegetables, and fruit, with 5,839 dunums devoted to cereals and 170 dunums to irrigated or orchard land in 1944/45, while figs and olives remained among the characteristic crops of the site.