Mount Meron
Mount Meron, also known as Mount Jarmaq or Jebel Jarmaq, is a mountain in the Upper Galilee region of Israel. It has special significance in Jewish religious tradition and parts of it have been declared a nature reserve.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,208 metres
- Description: mountain in the Upper Galilee in Israel
- Also known as: “Har Jarmaq”, “Har Meiron”, “Har Meron”, “Jebel el Jermaq”, “Jermuk”, “Meron”, “Mount Atzmon”, and “Mount Meiron”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Khirbet Shema and Old Meron Synagogue.
Khirbet Shema
Archaeological site
Khirbet Shema is an archaeological site located in Israel at the foot of Mount Meron. It features the ruins of a large Jewish village of the Roman and Byzantine periods, including the remains of an ancient synagogue and a mausoleum.
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochay tomb
Synagogue
Photo: Djampa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The tomb of Shimon bar Yochai, or Kever Rashbi, on Mount Meron is the traditional burial place of the 2nd-century Mishnaic rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. A place of pilgrimage since the late 15th century, it is today the second-most-visited Jewish site in the world after the Western Wall with as many as two million annual visitors.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Meron and Kfar Hoshen.
Meron
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Meron or Meiron is a moshav in northern Israel. Located on the slopes of Mount Meron in the Upper Galilee near Safed, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council.
Kfar Hoshen
Village
Photo: קרלוס הגדול, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kfar Hoshen, also known as Safsufa, is a moshav in northern Israel. Located around four kilometres north of Meron, it falls under the jurisdiction of Merom HaGalil Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 917.
Tziv’on
Hamlet
Tziv'on is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located near Safed and the Lebanese border, it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council. In 2023 it had a population of 457.
Mount Meron
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Northern District, Israel, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.99778° or 32° 59′ 52″ northLongitude
35.41373° or 35° 24′ 49″ eastElevation
1,208 metres (3,963 feet)Open location code
8G4QXCX7+4FOpenStreetMap ID
node 275295939OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yiddish—“Mount Meron” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “Jebel Jarmaq”
- Arabic: “جبل الجرمق”
- Arabic: “جبل الجَرمق”
- Asturian: “Monte Merón”
- Belarusian: “Мерон”
- Belarusian: “Мэрон”
- Bengali: “মেরন পর্বত”
- Catalan: “mont Merom”
- Cebuano: “Har Meron”
- Central Kurdish: “مێرۆن”
- Chechen: “МегӀон”
- Chinese: “莫蘭山”
- Czech: “Har Meron”
- Dutch: “Meronberg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل الجرمق”
- Finnish: “Har Meron”
- Finnish: “Meronin vuori”
- French: “mont Méron”
- French: “Mont Méron”
- Galician: “Monte Merón”
- Georgian: “მერონი”
- German: “Har Meron”
- Greek: “Μερόν”
- Greek: “Όρος Μερόν”
- Hebrew: “הג’רמק”
- Hebrew: “הר מירון”
- Hebrew: “הר מירון”
- Hindi: “माउंट मेरन”
- Hungarian: “Har Meron”
- Hungarian: “Meron-hegy”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Meron”
- Italian: “monte Meron”
- Italian: “Monte Meron”
- Japanese: “メロン山”
- Korean: “메론산”
- Ladin: “Meron”
- Macedonian: “Мерон”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Har Meron”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Har Meron”
- Norwegian: “Har Meron”
- Persian: “الجليل”
- Persian: “تاريخ”
- Persian: “طبيعت”
- Persian: “فلسطين”
- Persian: “كوه”
- Persian: “کوه مرون”
- Polish: “Meron”
- Portuguese: “Monte Meron”
- Romanian: “Muntele Meron”
- Romanian: “Muntele Merón”
- Russian: “Мерон”
- Russian: “Мирон (гора)”
- Russian: “Хар Мерон”
- Scots: “Moont Meron”
- Serbian: “Мерон”
- Slovenian: “Meron”
- Spanish: “Monte Meron”
- Spanish: “Monte Merón”
- Swedish: “Meron”
- Tajik: “Мерон”
- Thai: “เขาเมรอน”
- Turkish: “Meron Dağı”
- Ukrainian: “Мерон”
- Venetian: “Monte Meron”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Meron”
- Yiddish: “בארג מירון”
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