Israel secretly assessed how much Jewish settlers on the Golan Heights would need to be paid if Israel returned the territory to Syria, according to Israeli press reports. The reports of the assessments, which reportedly occurred between 1992 and 1996 under the governments of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, comes as some Israeli legislators are pressing for a bill under which Israel could return the Golan only after a vote by Knesset members.
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