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Sunday, June 14, 2020
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Sunday, June 14, 2020
Minister says work starting to bring 300 families to Ramat Trump
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSettlements Minister Tzipi Hotovely writes on Facebook that her ministry will start preparations for Ramat Trump — Hebrew for “Trump Heights” — to house 300 families in the Golan Heights, after the government voted to push ahead with establishing the community.
“The decision is great news,” she writes.
At a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would “begin practical steps in establishing the community of Ramat Trump on the Golan Heights, Israel’s sovereignty over which was recognized by President Trump.”
The town is a rebranding of an existing neighborhood of the town of Kela Alon, currently home to about a dozen people in a handful of mobile homes.
— with AP
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