Birkat Ram

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Birkat Ram
View with the lofty Mount Hermon beyond
Location	Golan Heights
Lake type	crater lake
Primary inflows	precipitation, underground springs
Basin countries	Israel

Birkat Ram (Hebrew: בריכת רם) is a crater lake in the northeastern Golan Heights, near Mount Hermon. The only sources of the lake are rain water and an underground spring. The water does not leave the lake to any other body of water. The crater is an extinct volcano.

According to The Talmud, Birkat Ram is one of three underground springs, along with Hamat Gader in the southeastern Golan Heights and Hamat in Tiberias, that opened up in The Flood of Noah and didn't close up again after The Flood.^{[citation needed]}