The Golan Regional Council is the regional council

Regional council (Israel)

Regional councils are one of the three types of local government entities found in Israel, with the other two being cities and local councils. As of 2003, there were 53 regional councils in Israel, usually responsible for governing a number of settlements spread across rural areas...

 consolidating almost all Israeli settlements located on the Golan Heights. It is made up of 19 moshav

Moshav

Moshav is a type of Israeli town or settlement, in particular a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah...

im and 10 kibbutz

Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...

im, and other villages. While the headquarters are located in the town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

 of Katzrin, that town is itself an independent local council

Local council (Israel)

Local councils are one of the three types of local government found in Israel, with the other two being cities and regional councils. As of 2003, there were 144 local councils in Israel, these being settlements which pass a minimum threshold enough to justify their operations as independent...

.

The current Head of Council is Eli Malka.

The Golan Heights were captured by Israel from Syria in the Six-Day War

Six-Day War

The Six-Day War , also known as the June War, 1967 Arab-Israeli War, or Third Arab-Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967, by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt , Jordan, and Syria...

 of 1967. They are internationally recognized as Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

n territory occupied by Israel

Israeli-occupied territories

The Israeli-occupied territories are the territories which have been designated as occupied territory by the United Nations and other international organizations, governments and others to refer to the territory seized by Israel during the Six-Day War of 1967 from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria...

, although Israel asserts it has a right to retain the area.

Villages

number	type	name	founded	remarks
1	kibbutz	Ortal Ortal, Golan Heights Ortal is an Israeli settlement and a kibbutz in the northern Golan Heights which lies in the municipal territory of the Israeli Golan Regional Council...	1977
2	kibbutz	El Rom El Rom El Rom is an Israeli settlement and a kibbutz, in the northern Golan Heights which lies in the municipal territory of the Golan Regional Council...	1971
3	kibbutz	Afik Afik Afik is an Israeli settlement and a kibbutz, and the first Jewish locale established in the Golan Heights after the Six Day War. Affiliated with Ihud HaKvutzot VeHaKibbutzim, it was established near the site of the abandoned Syrian village named Fiq on 8 May 1972...	1972
4	kibbutz	Geshur Geshur, Golan Heights Geshur is an Israeli settlement, kibbutz, on the ridge of the southern Golan Heights. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.-Biblical era:...	1976
5	kibbutz	Kfar Haruv Kfar Haruv Kfar Haruv is an Israeli settlement, kibbutz, located in the southern Golan Heights. A member of the Kibbutz Movement, it falls under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council...	1974
6	kibbutz	Mevo Hama Mevo Hama Mevo Hama is an Israeli settlement and a kibbutz, on the southern Golan Heights. The southernmost village in the Golan, it is located from the Sea of Galilee at a height of above sea level. It falls under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council...	1968
7	kibbutz	Metzar Metzar Metzar is an Israeli settlement, kibbutz, in the southern Golan Heights which lies in the municipal territory of the Golan Regional Council. Metzar was the 29th settlement on the Golan Heights. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under...	1981
8	kibbutz	Merom Golan Merom Golan Merom Golan is an Israeli settlement and a kibbutz in the northern Golan Heights which lies in the municipal territory of the Golan Regional Council...	1967
9	kibbutz	Natur	1980
10	kibbutz	Ein Zivan Ein Zivan Ein Zivan is an Israeli settlement and a kibbutz in the northern Golan Heights under the jurisdiction of the Golan Regional Council. The kibbutz was founded in 1968. Today 50 families live there...	1968
11	moshav	Avnei Eitan Avnei Eitan Avnei Eitan , elevation above sea level, is an Israeli settlement, moshav on the Golan Heights founded after the 1973 Yom Kippur War in honor of six Israeli soldiers who had been killed in battle. A prominent landmark in the area is one of the starting points to the El Al Stream, the other being...	1978
12	moshav	Odem Odem Odem is an Israeli settlement, moshav shitufi, situated in the northern part of the Golan Heights. It is located on Mount Odem, at a height of above sea level, making it the second-highest town in Israel and the Israeli-occupied territories. It is surrounded by the Odem Forest. Odem means ruby...	1975
13	moshav	Alonei HaBashan Alonei HaBashan Alonei HaBashan is an Israeli settlement, moshav shitufi, located in the central Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. The settlement was built in 1981, and its name is taken from the Bible . "Bashan" is a Biblical name for the Golan Heights. It falls under the municipal jurisdiction...	1981
14	moshav	Eliad Eliad, Golan Heights Eliad is an Israeli settlement and a moshav, located in the southern Golan Heights. It falls under the jurisdiction of Golan Regional Council and in 2006 had a population of 264...	1968
15	moshav	Aniam Aniam Aniam is an Israeli settlement, a moshav, located in the Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. The settlement was built in 1978. It falls under the municipal jurisdiction of the Golan Regional Council...	1978
16	moshav	Bnei Yehuda Bnei Yehuda, Golan Heights Bnei Yehuda is an Israeli settlement, moshav, located in the southern Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. The moshav was built in 1972. It falls under the municipal jurisdiction of the Golan Regional Council...	1972
17	moshav	Givat Yoav Givat Yoav Givat Yoav is an Israeli settlement, moshav, located in the southern Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. The settlement was built in the 1968s. It falls under the municipal jurisdiction of the Golan Regional Council...	1970
18	moshav	Hispin Hispin Haspin is an Israeli settlement and a moshav located in the southern Golan Heights. It was built in 1978. It falls under the municipal jurisdiction of the Golan Regional Council. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the...	1978
19	moshav	Yonatan Yonatan, Golan Heights Yonatan is an Israeli settlement and a moshav located in the central Golan Heights. Yonatan was started as a moshav shitufi and underwent a privatization process to become a "yishuv kehillati" . The settlement is affiliated with the Hapoel HaMizrachi movement, and is under the jurisdiction of...	1978
20	moshav	Kanaf Kanaf Kanaf is an Israeli settlement, moshav shitufi, located in the southern Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. The settlement was built in 1985. It falls under the municipal jurisdiction of the Golan Regional Council. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the...	1991
21	moshav	Ma'ale Gamla Ma'ale Gamla Ma'ale Gamla is an Israeli settlement, moshav, located in the west part of the Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. The moshav was built in 1975. It falls under the municipal jurisdiction of the Golan Regional Council. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the...	1975
22	moshav	Neot Golan Neot Golan Neot Golan is an Israeli settlement, moshav, in the southern Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. The moshav was built in 1968. It falls under the municipal jurisdiction of the Golan Regional Council. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights...	1968
23	moshav	Nov	1974
24	moshav	Neve Ativ Neve Ativ Neve Ativ , is a small Alpine-styled Israeli settlement in the Golan Heights, founded in 1972, and located on the slopes of Mount Hermon, west of Majdal Shams. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli...	1968
25	moshav	Nimrod Nimrod, Golan Heights Nimrod is a small Israeli settlement, cooperative agricultural community, in the Golan Heights on the southern slopes of Mount Hermon, and is the highest such civilian settlement in Israel at above sea level.The moshav is part of the Golan Regional Council...	1982
26	moshav	Kidmat Tzvi Kidmat Tzvi Kidmat Tzvi is an Israeli settlement, moshava, in the central Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. The settlement was built in 1981. It falls under the municipal jurisdiction of the Golan Regional Council...	1981
27	moshav	Keshet Keshet, Golan Heights Keshet is an Israeli settlement, moshav shitufi, in the Golan Heights. It was established in 1974 after the Yom Kippur War by Hapoel HaMizrachi near the Syrian city of Quneitra, which had been abandoned and subsequently razed to the ground in the Six Day War...	1974
28	moshav	Ramot Ramot, Golan Heights Ramot is an Israeli settlement and a moshav near the eastern shores of the Sea of Galilee in the western Golan Heights. It belongs to the Golan Regional Council. It is named "Ramot" because it is located on two hills...	1969
29	moshav	Ramat Magshimim Ramat Magshimim Ramat Magshimim is an Israeli settlement, moshav, in the southern Golan Heights, under the administration of Israel. The settlement was built in 1972. It falls under the municipal jurisdiction of the Golan Regional Council. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan...	1968
30	moshav	Sha'al Sha'al Sha'al is an Israeli settlement and a moshav in the northern Golan Heights. The settlement was built in 1980. It falls under the municipal jurisdiction of the Golan Regional Council. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but...	1980
31	comm.settlmt.	Had Nes	1989
32	comm.settlmt.	Kela Alon Kela Alon Kela Alon is an Israeli settlement, communal settlement, in the Golan Regional Council, Israel. The village was founded in 1984. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this....	1984

Heads and deputy council

• Moshe Gorlik
• Eytan Lis
• Shimon Sheves
  Shimon Sheves
  Shimon Sheves was the General Director of the Israeli Prime Minister's office under the late Yizhak Rabin, between 1992 and 1995. Sheves now serves as a political advisor to governments and to political leaders around the world...
  
  
• Yehuda Vulman
• Eli Malka

External links

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