Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu opened a festive cabinet meeting in the Golan Heights on Sunday by calling it an historic day.
Netanyahu explained, "We are going to do two things: Establish a new community on the Golan Heights, something which has not been done for many years. This is an act of settlement and of Zionism of the first order. The second thing is to honor our friend, a very great friend of the State of Israel, President Donald Trump, who recently recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. He is the first international leader to have done so."