The government hopes to bring in an additional 23,000 settlers over the next five years.
Israel will spend $300 million to double the number of Jewish settlers living in the Golan Heights over the next five years, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced Sunday, a controversial move that would strengthen Israel’s control over the disputed territory, which it captured from Syria during
the Six-Day War of 1967.... [+]Over the next five years, Israel will build 3,300 new residential units in Katzrin, the largest Israeli settlement in the Golan Heights; 4,065 in surrounding communities; and 4,000 units in two new settlements to be named Asif and Matar, Bennett’s administration said in
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