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February 18, 2011       Share:    

Source: http://www.boston.com/travel/articles/2011/02/13/so_beautiful____so_strategic/?page=full

Golan Heights - Beautiful and Strategic

(Boston Globe) David Abel - The Golan Heights was a battleground for years between Syria and Israel, which seized the strategic highlands during the Six-Day War in 1967 and parried a Syrian effort to retake the area in 1973. Over the last three decades, this windswept territory of 500 square miles has been transformed into a breadbasket of Israel, giving rise to kumquat and apple groves, spicy cabernets and tangy olive oil, sweet milk chocolate and dainty pastries. There are now artist colonies and multimillion-dollar industries, hot springs and ski slopes.

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