On the Way to Kursi National Park. 1P: On the top of the mountain is the Greco-Roman (3rd Cent. BC-7th Cent AD) city of Hippos or Sussita. One of the 10 cities of Decapolis at the time of Jesus.

1P: Sometimes Hippos is identified as the one mentioned by Jesus in Mathew 5:14; "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid". According to Jewish Talmud, Sussita was the land Tov or Tob ("good") where the judge Jephthah lived at the 12th Cent. BC (Judges 11:3). The Israelite Hippos was probably destroyed in 732 BC by the Assyrian King Tiglath-Pileser III.