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Mount Hermon ( '''Jabal El-Sheikh''', '''Djabl A-Sheikh''' of Neve Ativ and Magdal Champs, a Druze village. The ski resort is the most developed in the Middle-East with a ski school, ski patrol and several restaurants located on both the bottom and the peak of the area. The mountain is heavily patrolled by the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli police. LOCATION AND SETTING The mountain is actually a cluster of mountains with three distinct Summits , each about the same height. The Anti-Lebanon range extends for approximately 150 Kilometre s (93 Mile s) in a northeast to southwest direction, running Parallel to the Lebanon range on the West . The mountain forms one of the greatest geographic resources of the area. Because of its height it captures a great deal of Precipitation in a very dry area of the world. The Jurassic age Limestone s are broken by Faults and solution channels to form a Karst topography. Meltwater from the Snow -covered mountain’s West ern and South ern bases seeps into the rock channels and pores, feeding springs at the base of the mountain, which form Stream s and River s. These merge to become the Jordan River . Additionally, the runoff facilitates fertile Plant life below the snow line, where Vineyard s and Pine , Oak , and Poplar Tree s are abundant. The springs, and the mountain itself, are much contested by the nations of the area for the use of the water. It is important who controls the mountain, as well as the springs below, to guard against Deforestation and Pollution . Mount Hermon is called the "gray- Hair ed mountain," or the "mountain of snow," because of the covering of snow, which is present on it most of the Year . It is also called -in Israel- "The Eyes Of The Country" because the post on the mountain observes the whole area. HISTORICAL AND BIBLICAL SIGNIFICANCE Mount Hermon was also called Senir by the Amorite s and Sirion by the Sidonians (Deut 3:9; Ps 29:6; 1 Chr 5:23; Song 4:8; Ezek 27:5). The mountain served as the northern boundary of the land promised by God to Israel (Deut 3:8) and also was the northern limit of the Conquest (Josh 11:17; 12:1; 13:5). The high places of Mount Hermon were apparently used by the Canaan ites for their Pagan religious rituals. They referred to the Mountain as Mount Baal-hermon (Judg 3:3). revealed to them his purpose to build his Church and to go to Jerusalem to die and be resurrected (Matt 16:18-21). Mount Hermon was a possible site of the 9:29-36). In the Book Of Enoch , Mount Hermon is the place where the fallen Watcher Angel s decended to earth. They swore upon the mountain that they would take wives among the daughters of men and return. Therefore, in Religion and legend, Mount Hermon was a high place near the gods, God , angels, or Heaven . FURTHER READING ON THE NET |
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