The Harod Stream , is a stream in Israel that flows west to east, from the

Givat HaMoreh Givat HaMoreh (, ) is a hill in northern Israel on the northeast side of the Jezreel Valley. The highest peak reaches an altitude of , while the bottom of the Jezreel Valley is situated at an altitude of . North of it are the plains of the Lower ...

area via the

Harod Valley The Harod Valley () is a valley in the Northern District of Israel. It is the eastern part of the Jezreel Valley, a transitional zone that extends to the Beit She'an Valley. From the south it locked by Mount Gilboa, and by the Issachar Plate ...

and

Beit She'an Valley The Beit She'an Valley ( or ) is a valley in Israel. The valley lies within the Beit She'an rift, part of the Afro-Syrian Rift (Jordan Rift Valley), which opens westwards to the Harod Valley. It is a middle part of the Jordan Valley. The valle ...

into the

Jordan River The Jordan River or River Jordan (, ''Nahr al-ʾUrdunn''; , ''Nəhar hayYardēn''), also known as ''Nahr Al-Sharieat'' (), is a endorheic river in the Levant that flows roughly north to south through the Sea of Galilee and drains to the Dead ...

, about north of Ma'oz Haim. It is the main drainage route of the Harod Valley"Nahal Harod Park - Archaeology & Birds of Israel"
/ref> The elevation is above sea level at the source and below sea level at the mouth (at ). The drainage basin is .''Environmental Micropaleontology. The Application of Microfossils to Environmental Geology'', 2012

/ref> The total length from the source to mouth is , but the length of the non- Intermittent river, intermittent flow is . ''Encyclopedia Palestina'' While the original sources of the water are karst springs,Chris Fischer
"Hydrological Modeling of the Water Resources in the Nahal Harod, Israel"
/ref> most of the stream's water comes from the discharge of numerous

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s, irrigation systems, and sewage. Rain floods are rare, and the upper flow of the stream is dry during most of the time. The network of the stream and its tributaries is mostly man-made, and natural riverbeds are preserved at the southern steep slopes of the valley.

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Ma'ayan Harod Ma'ayan Harod () or Ain Jalut ( ', or , and ) is an all-year spring in the Harod Valley (the easternmost part of the Jezreel Valley) on the northwest corner of Mount Gilboa, that was the location of the 13th-century Battle of Ain Jalut. Thi ...

Beit She'an Beit She'an ( '), also known as Beisan ( '), or Beth-shean, is a town in the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel. The town lies at the Beit She'an Valley about 120 m (394 feet) below sea level. Beit She'an is believed to ...

National Park * Highway 71 (Israel)

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