Mount Meron

Mount Meron, also known as Mount Jarmaq or Jebel Jarmaq, is a mountain in the region of . It has special significance in Jewish religious tradition and parts of it have been declared a nature reserve.
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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”, “Jebel al Jarmaq”, “Jebel el Jermaq”, “Jermuk”, “Meron”, “Mount Atzmon”, “Mount Meiron”, “Мирон (гора)”, “Хар Мерон”, “הג’רמק”, “הר מירון‎”, “الجليل”, “تاريخ”, “طبيعت”, “فلسطين”, and “كوه”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Old Meron Synagogue and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochay tomb.

Archaeological site
Photo: Bukvoed, CC BY 3.0.
is an archaeological site.

Synagogue
Photo: Djampa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The tomb of Shimon bar Yochai, or Kever Rashbi…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Meron and Kfar Hoshen.

Village
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or Meiron is a moshav in northern .

Village
Photo: קרלוס הגדול, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as Safsufa, is a moshav in northern Israel.

Hamlet
Tziv'on is a kibbutz in northern .

Mount Meron

Latitude
32.99778° or 32° 59′ 52″ north
Longitude
35.41373° or 35° 24′ 49″ east
Elevation
1,208 metres (3,963 feet)
Open location code
8G4QXCX7+4F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 275295939
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
294257
Wiki­data ID
Q540520
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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”
  • Basque: “Meron”
  • Belarusian: “Мерон”
  • Belarusian: “Мэрон”
  • Bengali: “মেরন পর্বত”
  • Catalan: “mont Merom”
  • Cebuano: “Har Meron”
  • Central Kurdish: “چیای 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: “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”
  • Latin: “Meron Mons”
  • Macedonian: “Мерон”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Har Meron”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Har Meron”
  • Norwegian: “Har Meron”
  • Persian: “کوه مرون”
  • Polish: “Meron”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Meron”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Meron”
  • Russian: “Мерон”
  • Scots: “Moont Meron”
  • Serbian: “Мерон”
  • Slovak: “Har Meron”
  • Slovenian: “Meron”
  • Spanish: “Monte Merón”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵎⵉⵕⵓⵏ”
  • Swedish: “Meron”
  • Tachelhit: “Adrar n Miṛun”
  • Tajik: “Мерон”
  • Thai: “เขาเมรอน”
  • Turkish: “Meron Dağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Мерон”
  • Venetian: “Monte Meron”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Meron”
  • Yiddish: “בארג מירון”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Tziv’on and Bar Yohai.

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