Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, speaks at the weekly cabinet meeting in Kibbutz Mevo Hama, in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Sunday, Dec. 26, 2021. Bennett said Sunday the country intends to double the amount of settlers living in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights with a multimillion-dollar plan meant to further consolidate Israel’s hold on the territory it captured from Syria more than five decades ago. (Nir Elias/Pool via AP)

Tel Aviv: It emerged on Sunday that Israel had revealed a plan to use up more than $300 million to double the Jewish settler population in the Golan Heights. The announcement came after 40 years after it usurped the region seized from Syria. “Our goal is to double the population in the Golan,” the right-wing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said as he introduced his one billion shekel ($317 million) initiative to enhance various facilities.

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