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The Trump name graces blocks of flats, hotels and golf courses. Now it is the namesake of a tiny Jewish settlement in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet convened in this hamlet on Sunday to announce the inauguration of a new settlement named after President Donald Trump.

“The Golan is Israeli and will remain so always,” Netanyahu insisted.
Trump is “a very great friend of Israel who has taken a decision that has never before been taken”, he added.
The settlement will be known as “Ramat Trump”, or Trump Heights. Israel hopes the community, first built in the 1980s, will attract a wave of people to what is currently little more than an isolated outpost with just 10 residents.
The decision comes just over two months after the US leader recognised Israeli sovereignty over the territory, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day war.
Israel later annexed the area in a move never recognised by the international community.
Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse


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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was at the naming ceremony for the village, which has been around since the 1980s and has 10 residents


Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was at the naming ceremony for the village, which has been around since the 1980s and has 10 residents.


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.css-1mniedq{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;}Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was at the naming ceremony for the village, which has been around since the 1980s and has 10 residents

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was at the naming ceremony for the village, which has been around since the 1980s and has 10 residents