Katzrin (Hebrew: קַצְרִין; also Qatzrin) is an Israeli settlement and local council in the Golan Heights. Known as the "capital of the Golan," it is the second-largest locality there after Majdal Shams, and the largest Jewish locality. At the end of 2010, Katzrin had a population of 6,700. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, though the Israeli government disputes this. Despite not being part of its jurisdiction, the seat of the Golan Regional Council is located in Katzrin.
To the south of Katzrin is the Sea of Galilee, to the north Mount Hermon, and to the west the hills of the Upper Galilee.
The site was occupied from the Middle Bronze Age, continuing into the Iron, Hellenistic and Roman periods. The most substantial structural remains date from the Late Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic periods (3rd–4th to mid-8th centuries), when the site was a Jewish village with a synagogue.
The Jewish settlement served as an important trading location in the region, but started to decline with the change of trading routs after the Islamic conquest. The village was destroyed in an earthquake in 746–749. As a result of the earthquake the location was most probably abandoned by the declining Jewish community.