Mount Hermon is the southern tip of the anti-Lebanon mountain range. Its highest peak is 9,230 feet (2,813 m) and the highest point inside Israel’s borders today is Mizpe Shelagim at 7,295 feet (2,223 m). The mountain is the only place with snow skiing in the country.

The mountain has been known as Ba’al Hermon, Senir, Sirion, Sion, and by Josephus as Mt. Lebanon. Today the Arabs call it “Jabel A-talg” which translates as “the snow mountain.” More than twenty ancient temples have been found on the mountain or in its vicinity.

Psalm 133:3 (NIV): “It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion.”

Song of Solomon 4:8 (NIV): “Come with me from Lebanon, my bride…. Descend from the crest of Amana, from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon, from the lions’ dens and the mountain haunts of the leopards.”