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.

From the western Golan, it is only about 60 miles – without major terrain obstacles – to Haifa and Acre, and Israel’s industrial heartland. The Golan – rising from 400 to 1700 feet in the western section bordering on pre-1967 Israel – overlooks the …

Jan 24, 2025 · The Golan Heights is a 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 …

Dec 16, 2024 · The Golan Heights, situated in the southwest corner of Syria and bordering Israel, Lebanon and Jordan, is a 1,000 square mile rocky plateau around 40 miles (60 kilometres) from Damascus,...

Mar 21, 2019 · The move thrust the Golan Heights — a fertile plateau beside the Sea of Galilee that has been one of Israel’s quieter frontiers for a half-century — back into international headlines. The area...

Continuing its decades-long land-grabbing spree, Israel has announced plans to expand settlements in the Golan Heights, the Syrian territory of 1,800 kilometres that Tel Aviv illegally occupied in 1967.

Mar 21, 2019 · What is the Golan Heights? The Golan Heights is a territory in Israel’s northeast corner, on the Syrian border. It’s rural, mountainous and mostly empty.

As an outcome of the Syrian attack on Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel gained control of the Golan Heights. The Israeli-Syrian Agreement on Disengagement of 1974 established a buffer zone between them and a United Nations Observer Force to supervise its implementation.

Dec 16, 2024 · Israel recently agreed to double its population on the occupied Golan Heights. It is a hilly area overlooking the upper Jordan River valley on the west. It is a Syrian territory occupied by Israel since 1967. The area’s name is from the biblical city of refuge Golan in Bashan.

The Golan Heights rise from 400 to 1700 feet in the northeastern section of the country. Israel's highest mountain, Mt. Hermon, is located here. The plateau was once actively volcanic and the northernmost points remain weathered and desolate. The Golan overlooks the Hula Valley, Israel's richest agricultural area.