An acquittal would be a severe setback for the Israel Antiquities Authority and its special investigators, who accused Golan and his co-defendants of making millions of dollars as part of an international chain of forgers planting sophisticated fakes in the world's museums.

Christian artifacts from Kursi can be viewed at the Golan Archaeological Museum.

Artifacts from Gamla are on the display at the Golan Archaeological Museum, including arrowheads, ballista stones, clay oil lamps and coins minted in the town during the siege.

Katzrin (; also Qatzrin ) is an Israeli settlement and local council in the Golan Heights.

Despite not being part of its jurisdiction, the seat of the Golan Regional Council is located in Katzrin.

Modern Katzrin was established in 1977 as a planned urban center for the Golan.

In 1981, under the Golan Heights Law, Israel applied Israeli civil law in the Golan Heights ( including Katzrin ) but this law was internationally condemned and determined null and void by the UN security council.

Golan Heights Winery, Katzrin

The Golan Heights Winery is located in Katzrin.

The Mey Eden mineral water bottling plant and the Golan Olive Oil Mill are in Katzrin.

A tourist attraction in Katzrin is the Magic of the Golan, a special effects movie screened at the local mall that depicts the spectacular scenery of the region.

Katzrin has twelve preschools ( including three for special needs children ); two elementary schools ( one religious and one secular ) and a comprehensive regional high school Nofey Golan with over 1, 000 students.

* Sakr Abu Fakhr: " Voices from the Golan "; Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol.

* ( from Syria ) most of the Golan Heights, since 1981, administered under the Golan Heights Law.

* 1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria

Scientists analyzing photographs taken by United States astronauts on the joint United States-Soviet space mission in July 1975 detected a vast fan-shaped complex of cracks and fault lines extending north and east from the Golan Heights.

However, Syria and Lebanon claimed that UNSCR 425 had not been fully implemented because Israel did not withdraw from an area of the Golan Heights called Shebaa Farms, which had been occupied by Israel in 1967, and which Syria now claimed was part of Lebanon.

Israel captured the entire Sinai Peninsula, and Palestine's Gaza Strip from Egypt, the Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan ( which it had ruled since 1949 ), and the Golan Heights from Syria.

Israel expelled thousands of Egyptians from Sinai, and commenced efforts at large scale Israeli settlement in the peninsula, concurrently with similar settlement in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Golan Heights.

During the period of negotiations and threats following the invasion, Saddam focused renewed attention on the Palestinian problem by promising to withdraw his forces from Kuwait if Israel would relinquish the occupied territories in the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and the Gaza Strip.

In June 1967, Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan, the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the area known as the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six-Day War.

Israel, which was ordered to withdraw from conquered territories and negotiate final borders by United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, annexed East Jerusalem and extended its laws over the Golan Heights.

Israel had captured the entire Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria by 10 June.

* Aviezer Golan, Ninio Marcelle, Victor Levy, Robert Dassa and Philip Natanson ( As told to Aviezer Golan ) ( Translated from Hebrew by Petretz Kidron ) ( Fwd by Golda Meir ): Operation Susannah, Harper & Row, NYC, 1978 ISBN 978-0-06-011555-5

Israel then captured the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria in a series of ground offensives.

Following the war, Ben-Gurion was in favour of returning all the captured territories apart from East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and Mount Hebron as part of a peace agreement.

Since 2004, Syria has accepted the import of apples from farmers in the Golan Heights, territory which it claims, through the Quneitra crossing.

In 1981 Israel extended Israeli law to the region under its Golan Heights Law.

The battlefield lies about south-east of the Golan Heights, an upland region currently on the frontier between Israel, Jordan and Syria, east of the Sea of Galilee.

The operation was carried out mainly with the Golani Brigade's Gideon Battalion infantry forces, for whom this was the first operation in southern Israel or in flat desert terrain ( Golani was normally stationed in the lush and hilly Upper Galilee region, near the Golan Heights for which it is named ).

They also wanted the Golan region to become a national homeland for Circassian refugees from the Caucasus.

In Greater Syria, including Lebanon, the wheat variety salamouni cultivated in the region around the Golan Heights, Galilee, Judea and Samaria, Jezreel Valley, Hawran and in Mount Lebanon, Bekaa Valley and Baalbek was considered ( in the mid-19th century ) as particularly well suited for making bulgur, a basic ingredient of tabbouleh.

Ben-Sasson, under Diocletian ( 284-305 ) the region was divided into Palaestina Prima which was Judea, Samaria, Idumea, Peraea and the coastal plain with Caesarea as capital, Palaestina Secunda which was Galilee, Decapolis, Golan with Beth-shean as capital, and Palaestina Tertia which was the Negev with Petra as capital.

The western region of the province is part of the fertile Houran plateaus, that extend through southern Syria, the Golan heights and northern Jordan.

McGreevey had become aware that he was about to be named in a sexual harassment suit by Golan Cipel, his former security advisor, with whom it was alleged McGreevey had a sexual relationship.

A film about Szenes ' life entitled Hanna's War was released in 1988 and directed by Menahem Golan.

Olivaw appears once more in Foundation and Earth, where Golan Trevize and Janov Pelorat from the Foundation eventually find the radioactive Earth, and Daneel's base on the Moon, and learn about his paternalistic manipulations, including the settlement of Alpha Centauri, the creation of Gaia, and psychohistory.

Some see Rujm el-Hiri, dating from the third Millennium BC in the Golan Heights, as a source for legends about " a remnant of the giants " for Og.

The Nimrod Fortress or Nimrod's Fortress, (, " Castle of the Large Cliff ";, Mivtzar Nimrod ) is a medieval fortress situated in the northern Golan Heights, on a ridge rising about 800 m ( 2600 feet ) above sea level.

Golan produced about 200 films, directed 44, won 8 times the Violin David Awards and The Israel Prize in Cinema.

As a director, Golan is probably most known for his 1977 film Operation Thunderbolt ( Mivtsa Yonatan ), about the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda.