Giv'at Bezek, Mountain summit in Golan Heights, Israel.
Giv'at Bezek is a basalt hill about 490 metres above sea level in the southern Golan Heights, roughly 2 km east of the Gamla site and 1.5 km east of the Gamla nature reserve. It is the lowest point of the Israeli line of hills, which begins here and runs north to Tel Saki, four metres higher. At its foot lies a dolmen field of about 200 dolmens.
Giv'at Bezek is the lowest summit on the Israeli line of volcanic hills, standing about 490 metres above sea level and rising four metres less than Tel Saki to its north. The hill is a basalt cone in the southern Golan Heights, roughly 2 km east of the ancient site of Gamla and 10 km south-east of Katzrin. Its Hebrew name is shared with Tel Bezek; in Arabic it is known as Tel Bazak.
The hill's Arabic name, Tel Bazak, is still used locally, and the dolmen field at its foot holds about 200 dolmens. The Hebrew name Giv'at Bezek comes from the nearby biblical site of Bezek. Visitors can see these megalithic stone structures scattered across the basalt slope.
Giv'at Bezek lies about 10 km southeast of Katzrin, near the turnoff from local road 808 toward the ancient site of Gamla; the nearest settlement is the village of Yonatan, 4 km to the northeast. The hill is the lowest point of the Israeli line of volcanic hills, standing some 4 m lower than Tel Saki to its north. The dolmen field at its foot covers roughly 3.5 sq km.
At the foot of the hill lies a dolmen field of about 200 structures, the largest such field in Israel, spread over roughly 3.5 square kilometres. The hill itself is the lowest point of the Israeli line of volcanic hills, just four metres lower than Tel Saki to its north.
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