Poleg

Coordinates: 32°16′5.23″N 34°50′8.58″E / 32.2681194°N 34.8357167°E / 32.2681194; 34.8357167
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Poleg Stream

Poleg (Hebrew: נחל פולג, romanized: Naḥal Poleg) is a stream in the Sharon plain in Israel that empties into the Mediterranean Sea between Netanya and the Wingate Institute.

Geography

The stream starts between

intermittent, and becomes a perennial stream towards its end. There is a man-made opening in the kurkar
ridge that runs south-north along the coastal plain.

History

In Arabic, the stream had been known as نهر الفالق Nahr al-Faliq, alternatively transliterated as Nahr Falaik;[1] and later as وادي الفالق Wadi al-Faliq.[2]

Poleg Delta

The nearby Tel Poleg archaeological site was excavated, revealing a fortified city of the

Middle Bronze Age. The site has mostly been destroyed by a modern quarry. The original opening in the kurkar ridge was made in the Bronze Age, and reopened during the Roman period.[3][4]

The

Crusaders called the stream River Rochetaillé ("Split-rock River") because of the long narrow rock channel, cut artificially at some former period through the inland cliffs, by which the river finds a channel to the sea shore.[5] On 6 September 1191, the night before the Battle of Arsuf, the Crusaders camped near the mouth of River Rochetaillé; by then, the opening in the ridge had clogged again, resulting in a 4000-dunam marsh
, which protected the Crusaders' camp from the east.

The opening was cleared again in 1935, and the stream's current course was set in the area east of the kurkar ridge.[6] The marsh, known by the Arabs as Birkat Ramadan, remained south of Tel Yitzhak as late as 1945, and was a popular hunting location with abundant wildfowl.[7]

Nature Reserve

The Nahal Poleg nature reserve is situated between Wingate Institute and Ramat Poleg, between Highway 2 and the Mediterranean.[8] It covers 500 dunams, and was declared a reserve in 1971.[9]

Flora in the reserve includes a coastal variety of

Lupin, and Tulipa
agenensis sharonensis.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 9780416717600
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  2. ^ Marom, Roy (2020). "The Exodus of the Arabs of Wadi al-Faliq during the 1948 War: Historiography and Historical Memory יציאת ערביי ואדי אל-פאלק במלחמת 1948: היסטוריוגרפיה וזיכרון היסטורי (Hebrew)". סוגיות נבחרות בחקר תולדות המזרח התיכון המודרני: 103–104.
  3. ^ נחל פולג - פארק יקום - מידע למטייל [Nahal Poleg - Park Yakum - Visitor's Information] (in Hebrew). Trekker.co.il.
  4. ^ Marom, Roy (January 2008). From Time Immemorial: Chapters in the History of Even Yehuda and its Region in Light of Historical and Archaeological Research (Hebrew) \ מימי קדם קדמתה: פרקים בתולדות אבן יהודה וסביבתה לאור המחקר ההיסטורי והארכיאולוגי.
  5. ^ Claude R. Conder (29 January 1875). "XXXI. Mediæval Topography of Palestine.". Quarterly Statement for 1875. London: Palestine Exploration Fund. p. 92.
  6. ^ שמורות הפולג [The Poleg Reserve] (in Hebrew). Israel Nature and Parks Authority. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2010-10-30.
  7. ^ Zev Vilnay (1945). מדריך ארץ ישראל. Vol. תל־אביב, השרון, השפלה והנגב. p. 134.
  8. ^ "Nahal Poleg Reserve" (in Hebrew). iNature.info. Retrieved 2010-10-30.
  9. ^ "List of National Parks and Nature Reserves" (PDF) (in Hebrew). Israel Nature and Parks Authority. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2010-09-27.

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