Aphek, Migdol or Migdal (Israel). This Aphek is second of four, and is in the.
Plain of Sharon. The ruins are called Tell Ras el-'Ain. Nearby are the Yarkon River and the former Roman road called the Via Maris. Named in Joshua's conquest of the Promised Land (Joshua 12:18). The Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant near here (1 Samuel 4:1)..

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