Antipatris
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Antipatris was a city built during the first century BC by Herod the Great, who named it in honour of his father, Antipater. The site, now a national park in central Israel, was inhabited from the Cha
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Tel Afek
Binar Bashi, the Ottoman fortress at the head of the Yarkon River
Antipatris fort. 1948
Yarkon River
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The Yarkon River, also Yarqon River or Jarkon River, is a river in central Israel. The source of the Yarkon is at Tel Afek, north of Petah Tikva. It flows west through Gush Dan and Tel Aviv's Yarkon P
Antipatris
…known in Modern Hebrew as Tel Afek (תל אפק), and in Arabic as Khulat Rās al-‘Ayn ('castle of the head of the spring'), after the nearby riverhead of the Yarkon. It has been identified as either the tower of Aphek mentioned by Josephus, or the biblical Aphek, best known from the story of the Battle of Aphek…
עננים מעל הירקון
Camels crossing the Yarkon, 1934
Yarkon Park
Nuphar lutea carpet in the upper Yarkon river.