\"This has been our best year in the past 15 years - in terms of construction, development, population, tourism, and general serenity... The cloud of uncertainty that has been hanging over our heads for the past ten years has lifted, and there are now at least 14 communities in the Golan that are building and selling plots and growing... In the past period of less than a year, we have absorbed over 300 new families, with more on the way... There is currently not one empty house in the Golan.\"

- Eli Malka, Deputy Mayor of the Golan Regional Council, speaking on Arutz-7 today