Israel's government on Sunday approved a $317 million plan to double the Jewish settler population in the Golan Heights, 40 years after it annexed the territory captured from Syria.
NIS-1-billion outline aims to build 7,300 homes in contested region over a five-year period, as well as housing, infrastructure and other projects to attract roughly 23,000 new Jewish settlers to area; 'Golan Heights are Israeli, this is self-evident,' Bennett says
Israel on Sunday unveiled a plan to spend more than $300 million to double the Jewish settler population in the Golan Heights, 40 years after it annexed the territory captured from Syria.