Etymology
Lebanese press and officials often refer to the northern, higher part of the Shaba Farms, just southeast of the Lebanese village of Kafr Shuba, as the Kafr Shuba Hills. On old maps this ridge is labelled Jebal ar Ru'us, Jebel Rous or Jabel Rous ("Jebel" meaning hill or mountain.)
Israel refers to this northern, higher part as Har Dov (Mount Dov), named after Dov Rodberg, an IDF officer killed there in 1970.
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