Geography
The settlement is located about two kilometres west of Mount Hermon, at an elevation of 1,050 meters (3,440 ft) above sea level. Both El Rom and the nearby moshav Odem are the two Jewish settlements in Israel with the highest elevation, after Nimrod.
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