Beit Jann

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Beit Jann
Hebrew בֵּית גַ'ן
Arabic بيت جن
Government Local council
District North
Population 10,000 (2005)
Jurisdiction 4,650 dunams (4.65 km²)

Beit Jann (Hebrew: בֵּית גַ'ן‎; Arabic: بيت جن‎) is an Israeli Arab local council on top of Mt. Meron, in Northern Israel. The town is one of the highest inhabited locations in Israel (940 meters above sea level), and has a population of approximately 10,000 mostly Druze inhabitants.

In July 2004 two young men from Beit Jann were seriously injured in a hunting accident, by 2 other residents of Beit Jann, who were off-duty soldiers hunting illegally with their army-issued weapons. [1]

Beit Jann was one of the settlements hit by Katyusha rockets fired by Hezbollah on July 14, 2006 during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.

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Coordinates: 32°57′55″N 35°22′46″E / 32.96528, 35.37944