DTN News: Israel Military Guard Mount Hermon In The Golan Heights

DTN News: Israel Military Guard Mount Hermon In The Golan Heights *Source: DTN News (NSI News Source Info) MT. HERMON, GOLAN HEIGHTS, Israel - January 26, 2010: Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights, the strategic plateau that Israel captured from the Syrians in the 1967 Six Day War. Stormy weather has brought much-needed rain to the Holy Land which has been suffering from years of below normal precipitation leaving the Sea of Galilee and underground aquifers at dangerously low levels. Israeli alpine troops disembark from a snow-mobile at a military base on the snow-covered slopes January 25, 2010 of Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights. Israeli army snow-mobiles leave their tracks in the wet ground as they transport troops from a military base to an outpost higher up the snow-covered slopes January 25, 2010 of Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights, the strategic plateau that Israel captured from the Syrians in the 1967 Six Day War.