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Tel Zeror is an archaeological tel on the Sharon Plain , approximately four km east of Hadera , SE of Kibbutz Gan Shmuel and south of Moshav Talmei Elazar . The tel, unconventionally, has two peaks, and between them is a field. The site is just south of the convergence of three small waterways; the Hadera Stream , Wadi Ara , and Nahal Yitzhak, where they continue westward as the Hadera Stream. Tel Zeror is sometimes identified with Zrar , a city mentioned in the description of Thutmosis III 's conquests, from the fifteenth century BCE. Another possibility is that the site is Machtar , from the same description.
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Tel Zeror is an archaeological tel , approximately four km east of Hadera , SE of Kibbutz Gan Shmuel and south of Moshav Talmei Elazar . The tel, unconventionally, has two peaks, and between them is a field. The site is just south of the convergence of three small waterways; the Hadera Stream , Wadi Ara , and Nahal Yitzhak, where they continue westward as the Hadera Stream. Tel Zeror is sometimes identified with Zrar , a city mentioned in the description of Thutmosis III 's conquests, from the fifteenth century BCE. Another possibility is that the site is Machtar , from the same description.
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archaeological tel
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archaeological tel on the sharon plain
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