(Jerusalem) The Israeli government on Sunday voted on a plan to double the number of settlers in the occupied Golan, a strategic area taken from Syria in 1967 and annexed 40 years ago, according to a statement from the prime minister’s office.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who chaired the ministerial meeting held in Kibbutz Mevo Hama, in the Golan Heights, near the borders of Syria and Lebanon, announced the vote of this plan, the cost of which is s ‘will amount to one billion shekels (over 406 million Canadian dollars).