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Mount Hermon
Arabic: Jabal ash-Shaykh Hebrew: Har Hermon
Mount Hermon, viewed from Mount Bental in the Golan Heights
Highest point
Elevation	2,814 m (9,232 ft)
Prominence	1,804 m (5,919 ft)
Listing	Country high point Ultra
Coordinates	33°24′58″N 35°51′27″E / 33.41611°N 35.85750°E / 33.41611; 35.85750
Geography
Mount Hermon Mount Hermon's summit straddles the border between Lebanon and Syria.
Location	Syria, Lebanon, Israel
Parent range	Anti-Lebanon mountain range

Mount Hermon (Arabic: جبل الشيخ, Jabal al-Shaykh, "Mountain of the Chief"; Hebrew: הר חרמון, Har Hermon, "Mount Hermon") is a very high mountain cluster in the Eastern Lebanon Mountain Range. Its summit sits on the border between Syria, Lebanon, and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.^[1] At 2,814 metres (9,232 ft) above sea level, it is the highest point in Syria and Israel.^[2] The southern slopes of Mount Hermon extend into the Israeli part of the Golan Heights. Most of the mountain peaks are snowy in the winter. Mount Hermon has the highest precipitation in Syria.

Media related to Mount Hermon at Wikimedia Commons

• Photos of Mount Hermon ski resort (in a snowless season) Archived 2016-04-11 at the Wayback Machine
• Israeli Hermon sky resort Archived 2013-03-14 at the Wayback Machine

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