The Gamla Waterfall is in the Gamla Nature Reserve, in the center of the Golan Heights, about 20 kilometres south of Qatzrin.
A variety of nature hikes are available from the nature reserve office, where you buy your tickets to enter the reserve.
The trek I took with several relatives during a visit to Israel in late December was only 1.5 kilometres long - an approximately 1.5 hour round trip.
But torrential rains throughout the country had turned this normally level gravel and wheelchair-accessible trail into sticky red mud, and we had to clamber from rock to rock in a stony field beside the trail, so the whole walk took us longer.
En route, we stared at vultures soaring overhead. And when we eventually turned a corner, heard the roar and saw the size of the waterfall, everyone gasped in amazement.
The torrent of water that flows over this huge wonder of nature comes from the Gamla Stream, which originates in springs in the eastern Golan. In the Gamla reserve, the river drops into a spectacularly deep canyon, creating the 51-metre-high Gamla Waterfall. Niagara Falls' Horseshoe Falls, in comparison, is only one metre higher.
We had some sunshine the day of our hike. But the unusually heavy rain that fell for several days earlier made it a particularly good time to see this natural wonder. There's a longer trail for the more adventurous, leading to the Daliyot Falls, 21 metres high, about 300 metres south of the Gamla Waterfall.
For more information about this hike and others available in the Gamla Nature Reserve, click here for the Israel Nature and Parks Authority website.
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