Nahal Gerar

Nahal Gerar, also Nachal Grar (Hebrew: נחל גרר) is a wadi in Israel, in the Negev desert.

Nahal Gerar begins on the border between the northern Negev and the southwest foothills of Judaean Mountains, near the village of Lahav (ancient site of Tel Halif).

[2] Then the wadi flows west near the city of Lehavim, and along the southern edge of a large Bedouin town of Rahat.

An archaeological survey and excavation was conducted in 2010 by Noa Shaul on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).

After the decline of the Egyptian sites, during the Early Iron Age, this area became culturally influenced by the Philistine settlers.

Bronze and Early Iron Age archaeological sites along the Gerar and Besor Rivers
A railway bridge over the dried out Nahal Grar River near Tel Shera - photo from 1917
River vegetation in Nahal Gerar, in the area of Gerar Park, not far from Tel Haror identified by some with the biblical Gerar
Tel Shera archaeological site along the Gerar river. Looking south from the railway embankment