Birkat Ram

Birkat Ram

Infobox lake
lake_name = Birkat Ram
image_lake = Brechat ram mt hermon.jpg
caption_lake = View with the lofty Mount Hermon beyond
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location = Golan Heights
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type = crater lake
inflow = "precipitation", "underground springs"
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basin_countries = Israel
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Birkat Ram (Hebrew: בריכת רם) is a crater lake in the northeastern Golan Heights, near Mount Hermon. The only sources of the lake are rain water and an underground spring. The water does not leave the lake to any other body of water. The crater is an extinct volcano.

According to The Talmud, Birkat Ram is one of three underground springs, along with Hamat Gader in the southeastern Golan Heights and Hamat in Tiberias, that opened up in The Flood of Noah and didn't close up again after The Flood.Fact|date=December 2007


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