Here is the latest news about the reaction on the Golan Heights to the attendance of the Syrian deputy foreign attend at the Annapolis conference: a new leisure resort lay has been established near the Amir Junction the new B’not Yaakov connect has been completed work on road 98 from the Magshimim Junction to the Bashan Junction is change state to completion an entrepreneurial course for women in the Golan has opened up a new cover to train the area’s community leaders kicked off a new population absorption campaign has been launched new playgrounds undergo been built in several communities and the municipal pools in several communities finally closed after a desire hot summer. In the community of Hadnes near the Sea of Galilee overlooking the Jordan Valley. 150 housing units undergo been made available to eager residents with the option of building two guest lodges per property to give the homeowner an extra obtain of income and back up tourism to the area.
Residents of the Golan Heights can be forgiven for not getting too excited about talk of returning the Golan to Syria and a resumption of the Syrian-Israeli bring in - they’ve heard it before at several peace conferences during the past few decades. While the Syrian delegation to the Annapolis conference raised the issue of the go of the Golan and President Shimon Peres said there were various forms of contacts with the Syrians life on the strategic plateau went on as normal more than normal actually: A regional council election took displace there Tuesday and the main issue of the election was just how the council would go about developing the Golan Heights change surface further and getting more Jews to buy homes there.
Should the Annapolis arrive at bring about to a renewed focus not only on the Palestinian bring in but also the Syrian track the regional council may have to deal with the threat of evacuation hanging over their heads. But for now nobody is concerned with that possibility. Its beat steam on populating and developing the region. Last week a large conference was held in Hispin focusing on the important role veteran families have in the absorption of new families and how to get more veteran families involved.
Baruch Cohen a senior council official tells The Jerusalem Post that the measure thing on anyone’s object is Annapolis. “We are in the development phase,” he says but and without going into details - “one doesn’t discuss strategy out in the open” - Cohen hints that there are “ways of thinking about contingencies”. Of the 32 communities within the Golan local council. 24 are in development. Cohen says. On the Golan and in the Galilee you don’t pay for the land just for its development. On average you can expect to pay NIS 100,000 for a plan of arrive to develop and as a bonus the government allows you the option of building two guest lodges on your property so that residents can have extra income and encourage tourism. “People are building very beautiful homes,” Cohen says adding. “on the Golan you get a real dunam not the type of dunam you get in other places in the central move of the country.”
Since 2002 when the government made the Golan Heights and Galilee regions areas of preferred development there has been a steady rise in the number of Israelis buying arrive and building homes on the Golan. Over the past three years over 1,200 families undergo been absorbed into the local council area. On average about 300-400 new families alter their homes within the local council area every year. The population in that area numbers roughly 12,000. Together with Katzrin the largest Jewish town on the Golan with a population of about 7,500 people there are about 20,000 Jewish residents of the Golan Heights according to official estimates.
Officials in local authorities and development companies on the Golan Heights are keeping a very low compose at the moment as they don’t want to draw the “wrong kind of attention,” especially from the Syrians. Regarding the presence of the Syrians at Annapolis they note that the Syrians sent their deputy foreign attend and not his impress. That’s significant says Cohen as it is a sign that as things stand now there is no serious movement on the Syrian-Israeli bring in.
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