The Ga'aton Stream (, Nahal HaGa'aton) is a small river in the Northern District of

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. It passes through the town of Nahariya before emptying into the

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ...

. The river runs through the main street of Nahariya, a city that takes its name from the river (''nahar'' means river in Hebrew).

History

In Ottoman times, the river was known as Nahr Mefshukh. The source of this river, formerly known as "the fountain-head of the waters of Ǧiyāto" (), and which issued from two natural springs: ''ʻain a-tinah'' and ''ʻain al-ʻanqalit'', is mentioned in late 2nd century rabbinic writings (

Sifrei Sifre ( he, סִפְרֵי; ''siphrēy'', ''Sifre, Sifrei'', also, ''Sifre debe Rab'' or ''Sifre Rabbah'') refers to either of two works of '' Midrash halakha'', or classical Jewish legal biblical exegesis, based on the biblical books of Numbers ...

on Deuteronomy 11:24), and in the

Mosaic of Rehob The Mosaic of Reḥob, also known as the Tel Rehov inscription and Baraita of the Boundaries, is a late 3rd–6th century CE mosaic discovered in 1973, inlaid in the floor of the foyer or narthex of an ancient synagogue near Tel Rehov, south ...

.Raphael Frankel and Israel Finkelstein, in an article published by them, entitled ''The Northwest Corner of Eretz-Israel in the Baraita ‘Boundaries of Eretz-Israel’'', Cathedra: For the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv (pub. by: Yad Izhak Ben Zvi), vol. 27, Jerusalem 1983, p. 43. (see: ).

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History

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