Har Szina'an, Mountain summit in Northern Israel.
Har Szina'an is the highest summit of the Naftali mountains in the Upper Galilee, rising 902 metres above sea level on the Ramim ridge near Moshav Margaliot. The Blue Line marking the Israel–Lebanon border runs across its peak, where the six-storey concrete Zipporen army post stands, three of its floors underground. An old tomb structure sits on the summit, split by a fence between the Israeli and Lebanese sides.
On the night of 21–22 October 1948, during the Second Truce, Kaukji's Arab Liberation Army took the fortified position on the summit, and the small Israeli unit withdrew. The Israeli operation Yael, mounted on 22–23 October by the 22nd Battalion of the Carmeli Brigade with men from Kibbutz Manara, failed. The summit was taken without battle in Operation Hiram at the end of October 1948.
The Hebrew name comes from Psalm 68, while Arabic tradition calls the mountain al-Sheikh Abbad, after a sheikh whose tomb stands on the summit. The burial structure was identified in the second half of the 20th century with the Talmudic sage Rav Ashi or his son Mar bar Rav Ashi, and was restored in 1990 by the organisation Kadmonenu. Breslav Hasidim come to pray there, about 300 of them in a coordinated visit on 7 March 2025.
Access to the summit requires prior approval: from the Lebanese side by UNIFIL forces, from the Israeli side by the Israel Defense Forces. The peak lies on the Blue Line border, and the area around the tomb is a closed military zone entered only with security coordination. Jewish pilgrims reach the tomb in organized groups, such as the Breslav Hasidim who came to pray in March 2025.
The summit tomb, identified in the second half of the 20th century with the Talmudic sage Rav Ashi or his son Mar bar Rav Ashi, is also held by Muslim tradition to be that of Sheikh Abbad, which gives the mountain its Arabic name, al-Sheikh Abbad. A wire fence once divided the tomb between its Israeli and Lebanese sides.
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