Hermon nature reserve

It includes an area in southern Mount Hermon which is located in the Israeli occupied portion of the Golan Heights.

The reserve excludes the Mount Hermon ski resort, Neve Ativ and the Nimrod Fortress National Park.

[1] The common birds in the reserve include white-throated robin, western rock nuthatch, sombre tit and northern wheatear.

In 1905 the botanist Aaron Aaronsohn discovered what he called "the mother of wheat", Triticum dicoccoides, on the eastern slopes of Mount Hermon.

In its time, this was a discovery of the greatest importance, as there were plans to hybridize "wild wheat" with other cultivars to produce a grain more easily grown in inhospitable locations.