The Golan Heights, or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria, occupied and administered by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War. [1][2] It is bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south, the Sea of Galilee and Hula Valley in the west, the Anti-Lebanon mountains with Mount Hermon in the north and Wadi Raqqad in the ...
The Golan sits in Israel’s far northeast, above the Sea of Galilee, pressed against the Syrian and Lebanese borders, and it feels like a different country from the coastal strip.
The Golan Heights is a hilly area overlooking the upper Jordan River valley on the west. The area was part of extreme southwestern Syria until 1967, when it came under Israeli military occupation, and in December 1981 Israel unilaterally annexed the part of the Golan it held.
Golan Heights | History, Map, Buffer Zone, Population, 1974, & Facts ...
A history of the Golan Heights from Biblical times to the present along with a discussion of peace talks with Syria.
The Golan Heights, situated in the southwest corner of Syria and bordering Israel, Lebanon and Jordan, is a 1,000 square mile rocky plateau around 40 miles (60 kilometres) from Damascus, although...
What is the Golan Heights and why is the territory so important to ...
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The Israeli government has approved a multi-year, nearly 1 billion shekel (about $334 million) plan to expand development in the Golan Heights and the town of Katzrin, New Hope Party lawmaker Ze’ev Elkin announced on Thursday. Elkin said the five-year initiative, adopted through a government telephone poll overnight and into the morning, aims to bring thousands of new families to the Golan ...