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Mount Bental (Arabic: جبل بنطل, جبل الغرام / ALA-LC: Jabal al-Gharam / "Mountain of Lust" "Jabal Bental"; Hebrew: הר בנטל, Har Bental, "Mount Bental" (lit. "Son of Dew") is a dormant volcano in the North-Eastern part of the Golan Heights , It extends to an elevation of 1,171 Meters above sea level .
Mount Shifon (Hebrew: הר שיפון, Har Shifon) 977 metres (3,205 ft) [6: Part of an extinct volcano in the northeastern the Golan Heights. Mount Odem/Ras al-Ahmar (Hebrew: הר אודם, Har Odem, lit. Ruby Mountain, Arabic: رأس الأحمر, Ras al-Ahmar)
The settlement was established as a kibbutz after Israel occupied the area in the Six Day War in 1967. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this. [2] It is located at the bottom of the volcanic crater [3] of Mount Bental.
The southern slopes of Mount Hermon extend to the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights, where the Mount Hermon ski resort is located [6] with a top elevation of 2,040 metres (6,690 ft). [7] A peak located about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) south-southwest of Mount Hermon, known as Mitzpe Hashlagim , is the highest point in the entirety of ...
View from Mount Bental. Bashan (/ ˈ b eɪ ʃ ə n /; Hebrew: הַבָּשָׁן, romanized: ha-Bashan; Latin: Basan or Basanitis) [1] is the ancient, biblical name used for the northernmost region of Transjordan during the Iron Age. [2] It is situated in modern-day Jordan and Syria.
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The Golan Heights, [c] or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria.It is bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south, the Sea of Galilee and Hula Valley in the west, the Anti-Lebanon mountains with Mount Hermon in the north and Wadi Raqqad in the east.
The UNDOF zone is about 80 km long, and between 0.5 and 10 km wide, forming an area of 235 km 2.The zone straddles the Purple Line, separating the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights and the rest of Syria, where the west line is known as "Alpha", and the east line as "Bravo".