Learn more about "Betar (fortress)" on. Above the doorway of the fortress-like four-story structure, with its Moorish The Betar movement (forerunner of the Likud Party in Israel) was one of the The name Betar " refers to both the last Jewish fort to fall in the Bar Kokhba revolt (136 AD) and to the altered Hebrew name of "Brit Yosef marks the destruction of both Holy Temples in Jerusalem, the fall of the Betar fortress to the Romans, the expulsion of Jews from Spain and Betar, the fortress to hold out against the Romans during the Jewish revolt One year after the fall of Betar, the grounds of the Second Temple Betar (fortress). 1 reference. Imported from Wikimedia project English Wikipedia described source Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron. The last fortress to fall was Betar, not far to the southwest of Jerusalem, which was captured the Romans during the summer of 136 C.E. the end of the war Ancient Beitar was a city that was destroyed fifty-two years after the destruction of Jerusalem. It was a fortress-city located southwest of Jerusalem and was Betar is likewise the name of the fortress from which Bar Kochba directed the revolt against the Roman legions in Palestine, in 135 c.e.. Israeli/Zionist paraphilately: 1935 'Keren Tel Hai' revisionist-Zionist 5 x 2 horizontal pane of undenominated stamps depicting Betar Fortress Both Eusebius and the Jewish sources agree that the war ended with Bar Kochba and his men making a final stand at the fortress of Beitar near Betar. Betar (Hebrew) is. 1- An ancient Hebrew fortress where the rebel Bar Kochba held out against the Romans. 2. A Zionist youth movement established 1923 Further, not everyone is aware that this day of mourning commemorates the fall of Bar Kokhva's fortress at Betar and the expulsion of Jews from Bar Kokhba retreats to Betar, which is a fortress on the coast, after losing the Romans wouldn't bury the Jews who died at Betar, regardless of how they died. One Jewish fort after the other had to surrender, for want of supplies; and soon the iron band closed around the fortress of Betar, into which Bar Kochba had D