A new settlement to be manned by Nahal, the Israeli paramilitary youth movement, will be established near Banyas, in Israeli-occupied Syrian territory, it was announced here today by the Jewish Agency. Banyas is at one of the three Jordan River headwaters which, in recent years, the Syrians threatened to divert.
Yakov Tsur, President of the Jewish National Fund, announced also that the JNF will develop lands for cultivation along the entire Golan mountain range which begins on the Syrian plateau and extends along Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon and Jordan to east of Lake Tiberias. He said the JNF will also prepare ground for new settlements in the Latrun area where he shortened road between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem runs through territory held by Jordan until the June war.
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