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The Israel Defense Forces will remain atop the strategic peak of Mount Hermon through the winter, according to defense minister Israel Katz on Friday.
The mountain is covered in snow in the winter, and Israelis even enjoy a ski resort on their side of the mountain, but Israel also maintains a heavy military presence in the area,Mount Hermon from Syria after Bashar al-Assad’s troops abandoned their post with the fall of the regime on Sunday. In the Yom Kippur War of 1973, in which Syria and Egypt attacked Israel by surprise, Syrian troops briefly ousted Israeli soldiers from their base, and withstood two counterattacks, before a complex Israeli operation captured both the Israeli base and the Syrian base on top. Israel gave it back to Syria under an armistice agreement in 1974.
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