ABSTRACT
The Hermon Mountains include Mount Lebanon and Mount Anti-Lebanon, and stretch from some forty kilometers west of Damascus in the south to some thirty kilometers east of Tripoli in the north. The peak is about sixty kilometers southeast of Beirut and ninety kilometers northeast of Haifa on the Mediterranean coast. Most of the range is in Lebanon, but the watershed runs along the Syrian border, and the foothills extend into Israel to the south. The northern boundary of Mount Hermon itself is generally considered to be about 1,000 meters south of Anti-Lebanon; the southern limit is Nahal Sa’ar, the morphological border between Hermon and the Golan Heights. The two parallel mountain chains along the northeast coast of the Mediterranean basin, Lebanon to the west and Anti-Lebanon to the east, are separated by the al-Biqā’, the Lebanon valley. On the border of Lebanon and Syria, Mount Hermon is the extension of Anti-Lebanon to the south.
