Israel approves finances to build ‘Trump Heights’ in Golan Heights

Israel’s governing administration approved funding on Sunday to set up a new town in the contested Golan Heights that will be named “Trump Heights” right after President Trump.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the Trump administration for recognizing Israel’s sovereignty around the Golan Heights at the commence of the cabinet meeting, right before members voted in favor of a spending plan for making the settlement, the Jerusalem Write-up claimed.

Netanyahu formerly declared the ideas for Ramat Trump — Hebrew for “Trump Heights” — final 12 months and unveiled a indicator with gold lettering on the planned website.

Recognized additional than 30 many years ago, the initial community, previously acknowledged as Bruchim, was house to much less than a dozen men and women.

The designs for the new town, which will home 300 family members, have been budgeted at 8 million shekels ($2.3 million), the report claimed.

Netanyahu on Sunday also praised Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for authorizing sanctions in opposition to anyone associated in an Global Legal Court docket investigation of People or US allies.

He claimed the worldwide court “made up absurd accusations in opposition to Israel, like the outrageous assert that the presence of Jews in the coronary heart of our homeland is a war criminal offense.”

“I thank President Trump and the American federal government once more for standing on the side of fact and justice,” the key minister claimed, in accordance to the report.

The environmentally friendly gentle for funding came on Trump’s 74th birthday.

With Post wires