(Breaking Israel News) The iconic race known as the marathon, traditionally 42 kilometers (over 26 miles) long, gets its name from an ancient Greek legend in which one Pheidippides ran that distance from the battlefield of Marathon to the city of Athens to announce a victory in 490 BCE.
However, Pheidippides was not the first to run this distance to report the results of a battle. One of the earliest runners in recorded history was a man from Benjamin some 3,000 years ago. Now, Israel is offering runners a chance to retrace his steps.
