Golan Regional Council ( he, מועצה אזורית גולן, ar, مجلس الجولان الإقليمي) is a regional council that supervises regional services to

Israeli settlements Israeli settlements, or Israeli colonies, are civilian communities inhabited by Israeli citizens, overwhelmingly of Jewish ethnicity, built on lands occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. The international community considers Israeli se ...

located on the

Golan Heights The Golan Heights ( ar, هَضْبَةُ الْجَوْلَانِ, Haḍbatu l-Jawlān or ; he, רמת הגולן, ), or simply the Golan, is a region in the Levant spanning about . The region defined as the Golan Heights differs between di ...

. It is made up of 18 moshavim, 10

kibbutz A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...

im, and 4

community settlement A community settlement ( he, יישוב קהילתי, ''Yishuv Kehilati'') is a type of village in Israel and the West Bank. While in an ordinary town anyone may buy property, in a community settlement the village's residents are organized in ...

s. The council headquarters is in the town of

Katzrin Katzrin ( he, קַצְרִין; also Qatzrin, ar, قصرين, qaṣrīn) is an Israeli settlement organized as a local council in the Golan Heights. Known as the "capital of the Golan", it is the second-largest locality there after Majdal Sh ...

. The current Head of Council is Haim Rokach. The

were captured by Israel from Syria in the

Six-Day War The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states (primarily United Arab Republic, Egypt, S ...

of 1967 and Israeli law was imposed there in 1981. They are internationally recognized as

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

n territory occupied by Israel. The settlements in the Golan are illegal under international law.

Heads of council

* Moshe Gorlik (1978–79) * Eytan Lis (1979–88) * Yehuda Vulman (1988–2001) * Eli Malka (2001–2018) * Haim Rokach (2018–)

Shimon Sheves Shimon Sheves (born 16 March 1952, Petach-Tiqwa, Israel) Former General Director of the Israeli Prime Minister's office under the late Yizhak Rabin, during 1992 - 1995. Sheves now serves as a political strategic advisor to governments and politic ...

was deputy council head in the early years of the council's existence.

Settlements

References

Regional councils in Northern District (Israel) Israeli settlement Golan Heights {{Israel-geo-stub