Nahal Be'er Sheva

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The Nahal Be'er Sheva (נַחַל בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע; Beersheba Stream) is a stream in southern Israel which originates just west of Tel Arad, southeast of the Yatir Forest, and is a tributary of the Besor Stream. Its tributaries are the Nahal Yatir, the Nahal Hevron and the Nahal Sakher.Alexandrov, Yulia, et al. "Differentiated suspended sediment transport in headwater basins of the Besor catchment, northern Negev." Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 57 (2008). It is named for the city of Beersheba, the largest city on its banks.

A major archeological site on its banks is Tel Be'er Sheva.{{cite web |url= http://www.parks.org.il/ParksAndReserves/telBeerSheva/Documents/tel-beer-sheva-en.pdf |title= Tel Beer Sheva National Park |author= Professor Ze’ev Herzog |publisher= Israel Nature and Parks Authority |access-date=May 1, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140902163212/http://www.parks.org.il/ParksAndReserves/telBeerSheva/Documents/tel-beer-sheva-en.pdf |archive-date= September 2, 2014 }}

It contains many archeological finds, including a Bedouin livestock market at the Well of Abraham, which the Bedouin called the Suq al-Waqef,Kressel, G. M., and J. Ben-David. “The Bedouin Market -Corner Stone for the Founding of Be’er-Sheva: Bedouin Traditions about the Development of the Negev Capital in the Ottoman Period.” Nomadic Peoples, no. 36/37, 1995, pp. 119–44. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43123454. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025. a winepress and Byzantine-era tombs.Varga, Daniel, and Svetlana Talis. "Byzantine Archaeological Remains in Beer Sheva, Israel." Athens Journal of History 7.3 (2021): 203-216. It converges with the Besor Stream at a location known as the Mifgash (מפגש; Meeting place),A.N. Goring-Morris, P. Goldberg, Late Quaternary dune incursions in the southern levant: Archaeology, chronology and palaeoenvironments, Quaternary International, Volume 5, 1990, ISSN 1040-6182, [https://doi.org/10.1016/1040-6182(90)90031-X.]([https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/104061829090031X]) just southeast of Tze'elim.