Jerusalem Has a Plan to Develop the Golan. It Should Follow Through
It’s only a matter of time before Israel is expected to open negotiations with Syria.
December 29, 2021
Jerusalem Has a Plan to Develop the Golan. It Should Follow Through
It’s only a matter of time before Israel is expected to open negotiations with Syria.
Forty years ago this month, the Knesset decided to extend Israeli law to the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in the Six-Day War. In 2019, the White House gave official recognition to Israeli sovereignty there—responding in part to Syria’s collapse and the impossibility of returning the territory in exchange for peace with the discredited Bashar al-Assad. Now Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has unveiled a plan to invest 1 billion shekels in the territory, with the aim of expanding its population by 23,000 over the next five years, building two new towns, and expanding existing municipalities. Eyal Zisser comments:
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