What is Yarkon River?
[[File:PikiWiki Israel 15301 Tel-Aviv - Yarkon park.jpg|thumb|220px|The Yarkon River in the [[Yarkon Park]].]] [[File:הגשר בירקון.JPG|thumb|A bridge other the Yarkon River.]] '''Yarkon River''' ({{lang-he|נחל הירקון}}, ''{{transl|he|Nahal HaYarkon}}'') is a [[river]] in central [[Israel]] that flows into the [[Mediterranean Sea]]. The river starts in the [[Tel Afek (Antipatris)|Yarkon National Garden]] near [[Rosh HaAyin]] and flows past the city of [[Petah Tikva]]. After then it flows through the [[Yarkon Park]] in the north of the [[Gush Dan|Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area]] beside the cities of [[Bnei Brak]] and [[Ramat Gan]], and then flows through [[Tel Aviv]] and into the Mediterranean Sea next to the Yarkon River Peninsula and the [[Tel Aviv Port]]. The Yarkon River has a written history of 2000 years. It is described in the [[Hebrew Bible]] as a border of the [[Tribe of Dan]] of [[Israelite]]. == Other websites == {{Commonscat|Yarkon River}} * [http://yarqon.org.il/en Yarkon River Authority] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140515071037/http://yarqon.org.il/en |date=2014-05-15 }} {{coord|32|5|59.87|N|34|46|40.13|E|type:river|display=title}} [[Category:Rivers of Israel]] [[Category:Tel Aviv]] {{multistub|geo|Asia}}