page_title: Lake Ram
hierarchical_section_title: Lake Ram
caption_attribution_description: English: Golan heights
context_page_description: Lake Ram is a crater lake in the northeastern Golan Heights, near Mount Hermon, in Israel. Josephus knew it by the name Lake Phiala. The sources of the lake are rain water and an underground spring. The lake has no outlet. It is known in Hebrew as "Brekhat Ram", meaning high pool. It is also called Birket Ram, using the Arabic word for pond. The area is inhabited by the Druze community.
context_section_description: Lake Ram (Arabic: بحيرة مسعدة‎, "Buhairat Mas'ade", lit. Lake of Mas'ade; also  Birkat el-Ram. Hebrew: בריכת רם‎, "Brekhat Ram") is a crater lake (maar) in the northeastern Golan Heights, near Mount Hermon, in Israel. Josephus knew it by the name Lake Phiala. The sources of the lake are rain water and an underground spring. The lake has no outlet. It is known in Hebrew as "Brekhat Ram" (also written Berekhat Ram), meaning high pool. It is also called Birket Ram, using the Arabic word for pond. The area is inhabited by the Druze community.
caption: View with the lofty Mount Hermon beyond
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