Helix texta Mousson, 1861 Helix pachya (Hebrew: שבלול החרמון) is a species of large, edible, air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

It lives in the high northern part of Israel, typically in the Hermon ridge area.

It is the largest Israeli snail with a shell of diameter 55 mm.

It is active during autumn (which is November in Israel), when it eats and mates.

When the cold winter comes the snail enter hibernation until the next autumn.