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Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Mount Hermon

Mount Hermon, where lies Israel's only ski resort, is in the news ...

Defence minister orders Israeli troops to prepare to spend winter on Mount Hermon

[...] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that the troops would remain until there was an effective force in place to enforce the Separation of Forces Agreement signed following the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Israel has called the move a limited and temporary measure to ensure the security of its borders but it is unclear when it will judge the situation in Syria stable enough to pull its forces back ...

At the border between Lebanon and Syria, Mount Hermon has a few peaks, the highest of which is in Syria, and which is also in the area of the buffer zone between Israel and Syria. The soutern slope of Mount Hermon is in Israeli terriroty and that's where the ski resort is. Wikipedia has a page on it ...

Mount Hermon ski resort

The Mount Hermon ski resort ... is situated on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Hermon, a few kilometers off the Purple line, in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Israel. The site is surrounded by the Hermon nature reserve. While the nature reserve is open year-round, the ski resort is open only at the peak of winter (usually January–March), when enough snow is accumulated on its ground ...

I never think of a place like Israel having snow. Reminds me of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, which does get snow too and you can actually ski there ...

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