Afik
Afik () is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz in the Golan Heights. It was established in 1972 close to the abandoned Syrian village of Fiq following Israel's capture and occupation of the Golan Heights in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. In , it had a population of .. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, while the Israeli government disputes this. Etymology Afiq literally means channel, riverbed. The name is derived from the Arab name Fiq and the ancient Biblical city Afeq.Website of Golan Regional Council
, 10 March 2008 (in Hebrew)

Name and biblical Aphek

There are multiple locations called Aphek in the

Fiq, Syria
Fiq () was a Syrian town in the Golan Heights that administratively belonged to Quneitra Governorate. It sat at an altitude of and had a population of 2,800 in 1967. It was the administrative center of the Fiq District, the southern district of the Golan. Fiq was evacuated during and after the Six-Day War in June 1967. The Israeli settlement of Kibbutz Afik was built close by. History Fiq was an ancient town covering about 100 dunams on a tell (archaeological mound). The surveys and limited excavations undertaken at the site have produced a small number of sherds from the Middle Bronze Age II, Hellenistic, and Middle Roman periods, whereas most of the finds were dated to the Byzantine, Umayyad, Abbasid and Mamluk periods. Late antiquity Fiq was identified by the 4th-century writer Eusebius with biblical Aphek. During late antiquity, Fiq had a mixed population of Christians, Jews and pagans. Many inscriptions in Latin and Greek have been found at the site. One of these i ...
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