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The Ga'aton Stream (, Nahal HaGa'aton; , Wadi al-Mafshukh)Khalidi, 1992, p. 19 is a small river in the Northern District of
The Ga'aton Stream (, Nahal HaGa'aton; , Wadi al-Mafshukh)Khalidi, 1992, p. 19 is a small river in the Northern District of Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
. It passes through the town of Nahariya
Nahariya () is the northernmost coastal city in Israel. As of , the city had a population of .
The city was founded in 1935 by Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.
Etymology
Nahariya takes its name from the stream of Ga'aton River, Ga'aton (riv ...
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 east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Eur ...
. 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 (; ''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 and Deuteronomy.
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on Deuteronomy 11:24), and in the Mosaic of Rehob
The Mosaic of Reḥob (, also known as the Tel Rehov inscription and the Baraita of the Boundaries), is a late 3rd–6th century Common Era, CE mosaic discovered in 1973. The mosaic, written in late Mishnaic Hebrew, describes the geography and ...
.Raphael Frankel and Israel Finkelstein
Israel Finkelstein (; born March 29, 1949) is an Israelis, Israeli archaeologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa. Finkelstein is active in the a ...
, 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: ).
Bibliography
*See also
*Geography of Israel
The geography of Israel is very diverse, with desert conditions in the south, and snow-capped mountains in the north. Israel is located at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea in West Asia. It is bounded to the north by Lebanon, the northe ...
*List of rivers of Israel
This is a list of rivers of Israel. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Nahal (Hebrew, wiktionary:נחל) and Wadi (Arabic) commonly translate to Stream, more seldom Rive ...
*Nahal Meirav
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References
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