Golan Heights - Wikipedia The Golan Heights, [c] or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria It is bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south, the Sea of Galilee and Hula Valley in the west, the Anti-Lebanon mountains with Mount Hermon in the north and Wadi Raqqad in the east
Golan Heights | History, Map, Buffer Zone, Population, 1974, Facts . . . Golan Heights, hilly area overlooking the upper Jordan River valley on the west The area was part of extreme southwestern Syria until 1967, when it came under Israeli military occupation, and in December 1981 Israel unilaterally annexed the part of the Golan it held
The Golan: From the Roots of Jewish Settlement - IDSF In 1948, Syria seized the Golan Heights, using it as a platform for aggression against Israel, regularly shelling communities in the Hula Valley and eastern Galilee In the 1967 Six-Day War, after years of Syrian provocations, the IDF launched a daring assault to reclaim the Golan
What Is the Significance of the Golan Heights? Following is a quick guide to the hilly, 1,200-square-kilometre (460 square-mile) Golan Heights, a fertile and strategic plateau that overlooks Israel's Galilee region as well as Lebanon, and borders Jordan