Here I am in Apollonia National Park , about 15 minutes drive from Tel-Aviv.
In 1191 BC, a decisive battle was fought at the very place that today is the latest addition to Israel's National Park System. For 18 successive centuries it was inhabited. The place is known as, Apollonia, or Tel Arsuf.
The Phoenicians named the settlement along the coastal plain Arshof, (for Resheph, their War and Thunder god). In the Hellenistic period the city was re-named Apollonia, as the Greeks identified Resheph with Apollo.
In 1191 the Crusaders triumphant win at this spot, established their reign in the Holy- Land for another 100 years.