Masada: The Myth and the Reality
The story of Masada is the story more than 900, 967 to be precise, Jews (men, women, and children) atop a fortress in the Judean desert near the Dead Sea. The last holdouts against the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, its freedom-fighters, nearly 1000 Jews, fought off the Roman military encamped under the fortress, evidence of which can be seen to this d…