The tomb of the great Jewish sage and physician Maimonides (Rambam) is the best known of Jewish tombs in the holy city of Tiberias but it is by no means the only one. Tiberias is also the site of the great second century sage Rabbi Akive, and his wife Rachel, and the miracle worker Rabbi Meir Baal Haness. It is customary among followers of Kaballah (Jewish Mysticism) to go to the sages graves at night and pray there.
Tiberias, established by the Romans in the early first century, became venerated in Jewish tradition in the second century. It became the most populous Jewish city in the north of the Holy Land in the 2d century on the heels of the destruction of the Second Temple and remained so into the 10th century. During that 900 year period it was the center of Jewish learning