DAN, a town which marked the northern limit of Palestine reckoned "from Dan to Beersheba." It is now identified with Tell-el-Kadhi, a mound 4 m. west of Banias, in a jungle of rank vegetation. From its western base issues a mighty fountain (Leddan), the largest of the sources of the Jordan. Laish, or Leshem (Judges xviii.), was its name prior to its conquest by migrating Danites and it formed, seemingly, a colony or de pendence of Sidon. Here the Danites set up Micah's graven image (Judges xviii. 30f.), and Jeroboam erected one of his golden calves (1. Ki. xii. 29). Its name disappears from history with its cap ture by Ben-Hadad of Damascus (1. Ki. xv. 20). An attempt has been made to locate Dan at Banias based on a direct state ment of Theodore and a vague allusion of the Jerusalem Talmud ; but it has against it the definite testimony of Josephus (Antiq. i. 10. i. etc.) and that of Eusebius and Jerome (Onom. Sac.) as well as the evidence from the survival of the name (both Dan and Kadhi signify judge). Tell-el-Kadhi is now in British Mandated Territory. A preliminary survey of the mound for excavation pur poses has been made since the World War.