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===Sources=== The [[Dan River (Middle East)|Dan]] and [[Hasbani River|Hasbani]] rivers merge near the kibbutz [[Sde Nehemia]] in northern Israel and become the Jordan river. The Hasbani (Arabic: ุงูุญุงุตุจุงูู ''Hasbani'', Hebrew: either ืฉื ืืจ ''Snir'' or ''Hatzbani'') is a stream which flows from the north-western foot of [[Mount Hermon]] in [[Lebanon]],<ref>{{Cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rhAzDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT260 |title= Essays in Political Geography |publisher= Routledge |year= 2016 |isbn= 978-1-317-60528-7 |page= 260 |access-date=2019-01-17 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200102035947/https://books.google.com/books?id=rhAzDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT260 |archive-date= 2020-01-02 |url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="AFIAL2012">{{cite web |author= Mark Zeitoun |author2= Karim Eid-Sabbagh |author3= Muna Dajani |author4= Michael Talhami |title= Hydro-political Baseline of the Upper Jordan River |pages= 19โ23, chapter ''Sources of the Jordan'' (2.1) |publisher= Association of the Friends of Ibrahim Abd el Al (AFIAL) with the [[University of East Anglia|UEA]] Water Security Research Centre |location= Beirut |year= 2012 |url= https://www.uea.ac.uk/documents/439774/1029261/UJR+Hydropol+Baseline+-+Main+lo-res+%282012%29.pdf/28ae7dc7-e16f-45a4-95a1-d285edbfc528 |access-date= 18 April 2020 |archive-date= 6 August 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200806222705/https://www.uea.ac.uk/documents/439774/1029261/UJR+Hydropol+Baseline+-+Main+lo-res+%282012%29.pdf/28ae7dc7-e16f-45a4-95a1-d285edbfc528 |url-status= live }}</ref> with a flow of 118 million m<sup>3</sup> annually.<ref name="rimmer2006" /> The [[Nahal Ayun|Iyyon]] (Hebrew: ืขืืื ''Iyyon'', Arabic name: Ajoun stream,<ref name="AFIAL2012" /> but ุฏุฑุฏุฑู ''Dardara'' for the uppermost course and ุจุฑุงุบูุซ ''Bareighith'' or ''Beregeith'' for the rest of its course) is a stream which flows from [[Marjeyoun District|Merj 'Ayun area]] in southern Lebanon into the Hasbani. The Dan (Arabic: ุงููุฏุงู ''Leddan'' or ''Liddan'', Hebrew: ืื ''Dan'') is the largest among the Jordan's upper course tributaries with c. 240-252 million cubic metres per year.<ref name="AFIAL2012" /><ref name="rimmer2006" /> The [[Banias River|Banias]] (Arabic: ุจุงููุงุณ ''Banias'', Hebrew: either ''Banias'' or ืืจืืื ''Hermon'')<ref name="carta">[http://carta-jerusalem.com/biblical-sites/jordan-river/ Jordan River] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806211815/http://carta-jerusalem.com/biblical-sites/jordan-river/|date=2020-08-06}}, Carta Jerusalem, accessed 82020</ref><ref name="AFIAL2012" /> is a stream arising from a spring at [[Banias]] at the foot of Mount Hermon, with a flow of 106 million m<sup>3</sup> annually.<ref name="rimmer2006">{{cite journal |first1= Alon |last1= Rimmer |first21= Yigal |last2= Salingar |title= Modelling precipitation-streamflow processes in karst basin: The case of the Jordan River sources, Israel |journal=[[Journal of Hydrology]] |year= 2006 |volume= 331 |issue= 3โ4 |pages= 527โ528 |url= http://micro5.mscc.huji.ac.il/~geo/physicalgeo/Alon%20Rimer/Springs%20Model%20JH%20331%203-4.pdf |access-date=20 July 2011 |editor1-first=R. |editor1-last= Krzysztofowicz |publisher=[[Elsevier]] |doi= 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.06.003 |bibcode= 2006JHyd..331..524R |quote= Rainfall and snowmelt of Mt. Hermon recharge the main tributaries of the UCJR: (1) Dan (252 x 10<sup>6</sup> m<sup>3</sup> annually); (2) Snir also known as Hatzbani (118 x 10<sup>6</sup> m<sup>3</sup>); and (3) Hermon also known as Banias (106 x 10<sup>6</sup> m<sup>3</sup>) (Table 2 and Fig. 2). |issn=0022-1694}}{{dead link|date=April 2020}}</ref> It flows into the Dan along with the Nahal Sion or Nahal Assal (Hebrew) / Wadi el-'Asl or Assal (Arabic).<ref name="AFIAL2012" /><ref>Zeitoun, Mark ''et al.'' (2012), p.36</ref>
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