Khirbat Bal'ame
Khirbet Bal'ame is located at the southern entrance to Jenin, approximately 2 km from the city center. It is a site that dates back to the Bronze Period, and it was mentioned in the Egyptian royal archives in the Late Bronze Age in the fifteenth century BC. It was part of Thutmose III's campaign against the northern cities led by the city of Megiddo, the area of the site is about 100 dunums.
Khirbet Bal'ame includes several features from different periods, from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, the Hellenistic Period, the Roman Period, the Byzantine Period, the Umayyad Period, the period of Middle Ages, and ending with the Ottoman period. Since 1996, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has carried out surveys and excavations around the area and the water tunnel to rehabilitate the area. A series of restorations were carried out on the site, in the water tunnel area on the eastern slope of al Khirba, and the rock-cut tunnel that heads upwards towards the west from the entrance with a length of about 110 meters, was cleaned with the final size of the tunnel. In 1999 AD, repairing the area was done to rehabilitate the tunnel area and prepare it as an archaeological park in 2005 AD, in cooperation between the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and UNDP.