YENOAM

The Merneptah Stele, one of the earliest
mentions of Yenoam, courtesy, Wikipedia

Yenoam is a place in ancient Israel either located within the tribal territory of Naphtali on the west side of the Jordan, or within the territory of the half-tribe of Menasheh on the east side, today in Arab-occupied Syria. The site is known from Ancient Egyptian regnal sources such as the stela of Pharaoh Seti I discovered in 1923 in Beit She'an by Clarence Fisher, curator of the Egyptian section of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, or from the more famous, and studied, Merneptah Stele found in Arab-occupied Egypt and describing the military victories of the Pharaoh Merneptah over the peoples of Canaan in the late 13^th century BCE. That stele was discovered in 1896 by British archaeologist Flinders Petrie. A passage of the stele reads as follows:

“The princes are prostrate, saying “Peace!”; Not one raises his head among the Nine Bows. … Plundered is Canaan with every evil;…;Yenoam is made as that which does not exist; Israel is laid waste, his seed is not;…; All lands together are pacified.”

This stele is also where the name “Israel” is mentioned for the first time outside of Biblical sources.  

Some of the suggested sites of Yenoam put forth by archaeologists and historians include: 

Tell Na'am near the Jewish community of Yavne'el in southeastern Galilee. This site would be visited from time to time by the residents of Yavne’el which was established in 1901 on lands purchased by the Baron de Rothschild in coordination with the Jewish Colonization Association. Its first residents were evicted from their previous homes in the Hauran (in southern Syria) in 1898 by the Ottoman authorities;  
Tell Shihab in the Yarmouk River valley in southern Syria. During the Ottoman period, a group of Arab colonists settled there and formed a settlement in which state in remains to this day;
Tell Na'ama in the Hula Valley in the upper Galilee;
and Tell Ovadya archaeological site in the Jordan Valley. 

Yenoam has also been tentatively associated with the biblical city of Janoah situated on the northern border of Ephraim tribal territory.