Ehud Olmert ruled out a return of the Golan Heights to Syria under his administration. “So long as I am prime minister, the Golan Heights will remain in our hands, as it is an inseparable part of the State of Israel,” Olmert told the religious Israeli newspaper Mishpachah in a Yom Kippur interview that was excerpted Tuesday.
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