Netanyahu Wants To Name A New Golan Heights Settlement After Trump

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country may soon name a new community in the Golan Heights region after President Trump. Breaking with long-standing worldwide consensus last month, Trump officially recognised Israel's annexation of the strategic plateau that it seized from Syria in 1967 in the Arab-Israeli war and annexed in 1981. Trump announced in March that the USA would now recognise the territory as Israeli, arguing it "is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability". The region has been a hotbed for battles in the Syrian Civil War. An estimated 20,000 Israelis live in Golan Heights settlements, which most of the worldwide community considers illegal. We want to keep our journalism open and accessible and be able to keep providing you with news and analysis from the frontlines of Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World.