Har Meron
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Mount Meron is a mountain in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 1208 metres (3,963 ft) above sea level. It is the highest mountain in Israel within the Green Line
Green Line (Israel)
Green Line refers to the demarcation lines set out in the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and its neighbours after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War...

 or the second highest point when including the Israeli-annexed part of the Golan Heights, which encompass the southern slopes of Mount Hermon
Mount Hermon
Mount Hermon is a mountain cluster in the Anti-Lebanon mountain range. Its summit straddles the border between Syria and Lebanon and, at 2,814 m above sea level, is the highest point in Syria. On the top there is “Hermon Hotel”, in the buffer zone between Syria and Israeli-occupied...

. The mountain has special significance in Jewish popular religious traditions and parts of it are a nature reserve.

Mount Meron nature reserve

In 1965, an 84000-dunam
Dunam
A dunam or dönüm, dunum, donum, dynym, dulum was a non-SI unit of land area used in the Ottoman Empire and representing the amount of land that can be plowed in a day; its value varied from 900–2500 m²...

 nature reserve was declared. An additional 1199 dunams were declared part of the reserve in 2005. It is the largest and highest reserve in Israel, at an altitude of 1208 meters above sea level..

Traditions

the mountain surrounded by several historical Palestinian villages,it was destroyed by the Israel army after 1948 war.
The village of Meron is on its slopes as well as the adjacent Jewish holy site (especially to Orthodox Jews) of the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. Leading up to the anniversary of his death on Lag B'Omer, thousands of people camp out along the slopes near the tomb, and on Lag B'Omer itself, hundreds of thousands make pilgrimages to celebrate the occasion.

Hiking paths

The mountain has a strong undergrowth and it cannot be walked up from every direction. The main path starts at the north west side of the Meron village. There is a gate next to the road, with a color-marked path of about 10 km. There is also a path on the west side of the mountain, but it is not easy to reach by public transport.

Climate

Mt Meron has a Mediterranean climate
Mediterranean climate
A Mediterranean climate is the climate typical of most of the lands in the Mediterranean Basin, and is a particular variety of subtropical climate...

(koppen Csa) with hot and dry summers and damp and cool winters. It snows on Mt Meron a few times each year but the snow usually doesn't stay on the ground for more than a few days. There are 22 days a year with a temperature of 32C or higher on Mt Meron and 28 days below freezing. Note: the below climate chart is an average of only 5 years so the record highs and lows may not be fully accurate. Also, the site doesn't give accurate rainfall information so there isn't any rainfall data in the below table.
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