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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday inaugurated a new settlement in the occupied Golan Heights, in honor of his key ally U.S. President Donald Trump.
Netanyahu's Cabinet convened in this hamlet Sunday to announce the inauguration of a new settlement named after Trump.
The settlement will be known as "Ramat Trump," or Trump Heights. Israel hopes the community, first built in the 1980s, will attract a wave of people to what is currently little more than an isolated outpost with just 10 residents.
The decision comes just two months after the U.S. president in late March recognized Israeli sovereignty over the part of the strategic plateau it seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day war.
Israel later annexed the area in a move never recognized by the international community.
Netanyahu's Cabinet convened in this hamlet Sunday to announce the inauguration of a new settlement named after Trump.
The settlement will be known as "Ramat Trump," or Trump Heights. Israel hopes the community, first built in the 1980s, will attract a wave of people to what is currently little more than an isolated outpost with just 10 residents.
The decision comes just two months after the U.S. president in late March recognized Israeli sovereignty over the part of the strategic plateau it seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day war.
Israel later annexed the area in a move never recognized by the international community.
