En Dor

14km/8.5mi northeast of Afula is the kibbutz of En Dor, founded in 1941 and named after the Biblical Endor, situated on a tell to the east of the kibbutz. Faced with the Philistine armies drawn up at Shunam, King Saul consulted the witch of Endor, who prophesied his doom (1 Samuel 28). The prophecy was fulfillled on the following day, when Saul and his sons were killed in a battle on Mount Gilboa, southeast of Afula, and his body was hung from the walls of Bet Shean.