Israel’s Trump gift

An Israeli Cabinet minister has said the government approved plans to build a new settlement in the Israelioccupied Golan Heights named after President Donald Trump. Settlements Minister Tzipi Hotovely wrote on Facebook that her ministry will start preparations for Ramat Trump — Hebrew for “Trump Heights” — to house 300 families. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed it in 1981. Most of the international community considers the move, and Israeli settlements in the territory, illegal under international law. But Trump signed an executive order recognising the strategic mountainous plateau as Israeli territory in March 2019.