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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 .
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 Israel and Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, at 2,236 m (7,336 ft). [8]
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)
From fascinating bite-size tidbits about science, to celebrities, history, and the plain weird and bizarre. The “Today I Learned” (TIL) page is a go-to corner of the internet, where a whopping ...
The oral history of the Klamath indigenous people describes the eruption of a volcano and subsequent creation of Crater Lake in Oregon, events that geologists date to almost 8,000 years ago.
Israel’s military advance on the Gaza Strip, West Bank, Golan Heights and Egyptian Sinai in 1967 sparked fresh bloodshed and saw the UN Security Council pass Resolution 242 ordering it to ...
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.
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.