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Mount Meron

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environs of Meron

  • TITLE: Meron (Israel)
    ...(Safad). Nearby is a perennial spring, the likeliest location of the “waters of Merom,” site of Joshua’s victory over the pagan kings of Palestine under Jabin, king of Hazor (Joshua 11). Mount Meron (3,963 feet [1,208 m]), Israel’s highest point in its pre-1967 boundaries, is 2 miles (3 km) northwest.

physical relief of Israel

  • TITLE: Israel
    SECTION: Relief
    In the north of the country, the mountains of Galilee constitute the highest part of Israel, reaching an elevation of 3,963 feet (1,208 metres) at Mount Meron (Arabic: Jebel Jarmaq). These mountains terminate to the east in an escarpment overlooking the Great Rift Valley. The mountains of Galilee are separated from the hills of the Israeli-occupied West Bank to the south by the fertile Plain of...

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