Tel Michal, Archaeological site in Herzliya, Israel.

Tel Michal is an archaeological site on the kurkar ridge facing Herzliya Marina, made up of five hills, four of them close together, with the highest point 30 m above sea level. The main tell is a small mound about three-quarters of an acre in size, cut off by two ravines running to the sea; a rectangular plateau 250 by 175 m lies to its north, and three low hillocks to its northeast, east and southeast.

Tel Michal was first settled at the end of the Middle Bronze Age IIB (1800/1750–1550 BCE), when a raised platform of red clay and sand was built on the high mound; finds include Cypriot imports, Hyksos scarabs and Egyptian alabaster vessels. After destructions, the site was abandoned in the 14th or early 13th century BCE and resettled in the 10th century BCE, when cultic rooms stood on the hillocks. It peaked in the Persian period, with six strata, a fort, silos and a cemetery of about 120 excavated burials.

The name Tel Michal was proposed in the 1920s, when the Arabic name Dahrat Makmish was read as a corruption of "Maklish", linked to the Phoenician god Reshef, also called Mikal; today the name follows Michal, daughter of Saul. Excavations found dozens of clay figurines and a hoard of six unused oil lamps left as an offering near a stone-founded brick building on the eastern hillock.

The site lies on the coastal kurkar ridge facing Herzliya Marina, with the highest mound reaching 30 m. The western part of the tell was destroyed during construction of the marina and a road was paved beneath it, so the remaining hills are reached from the marina side. There are no visitor facilities or marked trails; the ground is sandy and exposed, and the coastal habitat is endangered.

Remains of wine production facilities from several different periods have been found across the site, suggesting that grape cultivation and wine making formed a continuous part of the local economy across thousands of years. This continuity across so many different ruling groups points to wine as one of the few activities that outlasted every change in population.