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Touring Masada -
this site was first fortified by Alexander Jannaeus (103-76 BC).
It was taken by Herod the Great in the power struggle which followed the
murder of his father Antipater in 43 BC.
From AD 6 the Romans controlled Masada,
but in the summer of AD 66 Jewish rebels took it over.