Sartaba
According to ancient Jewish sources, the fortress of Sartaba, whose ruins stand on a cone-shaped mountain high above the Jordan Valley, was the first stop after the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem where a bonfire was lit to relay the announcement of the new moon onward to the Jews of Babylonia. A challenging one-kilometer hike leads to the top, with a breathtaking view and the ruins of the fortress, built in the first century CE by the Hasmonean King Alexander Jannaeus. Later, Herod the Great buried his Hasmonean wife Mariamne there