JERUSALEM — Three weeks before Israel’s closely fought election, President Donald Trump gave incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a political boost by recognizing the Golan Heights as Israeli territory. Now Netanyahu, who ended up winning another term, says he wants to repay the U.S. president: by naming a new settlement there after him. “All Israelis were deeply moved when President Trump made his historic decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights,” Netanyahu said in a video released by his office Tuesday. “Therefore, after the Passover holiday I intend to bring to the government a resolution calling for a new community on the Golan Heights, named after President Donald J. Trump.”Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara and their sons Yair and Avner toured on the Golan Heights including the Saar stream and Nimrod's Fortress. When visiting Washington in March for the official signing of U.S. recognition of the Golan Heights as Israel, Netanyahu declared that Israel had never had a better friend in the White House.

Source: National Post April 24, 2019 12:33 UTC