Aphek, Migdol or Migdal (Israel).This Aphek is second of four, and is in the.<BR>Plain of Sharon. The ruins are called Tell Ras el-'Ain. Nearby are the Yarkon River and the former Roman road called the Via Maris. Named in Joshua's conquest of the Promised Land (Joshua 12: 18). The Philistines captured the Ark of the Covenant near here (1 Samuel 4: 1)..