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Mount Karkom

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Mount Karkom

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Mount Karkom, also Har Karkom ("Mountain of Saffron"), from Arabic Jabal Karkoum (also Jabal Ideid), is a mountain in the southwest Negev desert in Israel, halfway between Petra and Kadesh Barnea. It is 847 meter (2, 780 feet) high.

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