Antipatris

Tel Afeq, the ancient city of Antipatris, is a layered archaeological mound inside Yarkon–Tel Afek National Park, carrying more than four millennia of continuous settlement. Herod the Great founded the Hellenistic-Roman city around 9 BCE, naming it after his father Antipater. The site appears in the New Testament Book of Acts (23:31), where Paul was escorted through the city on his way to Caesarea under Roman guard. Successive occupiers — Romans, Byzantines, Crusaders, and finally Ottomans — each left structural traces; the most visible ruin today is the 16th-century Ottoman square fort known as Binar Baschi. Visitors walk marked trails through the national park past excavation trenches, mosaic fragments, and the Ottoman bastions.