Not many. It's about 8 or 9 miles at the closest point.
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Many countries have concerns about the Golan Heights (e.g. will it be part of the Syrian Civil War, will it remain peaceful, etc.), but if the question is asking about what country other than Israel argues that it has the right to control the Golan Heights, that would be SYRIA.The Golan Heights is a large portion of the Syrian province of Quneitira which forms the southernmost edge of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. However, as a result of the Six Day War of 1967, the Golan Heights fell under legal Israeli occupation (pursuant to UNSC Resolution 242) until such time as Israel and Syria could come to a peace agreement. In 1981, Israel illegally annexed the Golan Heights to its Northern Province. It remains under Israeli control.However, aside from the Golan Heights, which is less than 1% of all of Syria, Israel does not occupy any Syrian land.
about 7 miles
760 miles
The Golan Heights are higher than the the surrounding Israeli land. When the Syrians had control of the Heights, they'd fire rockets at civilian settlements in Israel from the vantage point. Today, Israel uses the dead soil of the Heights for agricultural research to develop drought resistant crops.
126 miles
It is 739 miles according to Google Maps.
It is 1,053.10 miles according to MapQuest.
It is 439 miles according to Google Maps.
It is 31.4 miles according to Google Maps.
The Golan Heights. Syria wants it because it was part of Syria from the UN partition in 1948 until Israel took control of it in the 6-day war in 1967. Israel wants to hold onto control of it because when Syria controls it, the Syrians have this nasty habit of lobbing heavy artillery from the Golan down onto the farms, kibbutzim, and towns in the valley which the Heights overlook. Realizing that somebody could potentially get hurt like that, Israel has been holding onto the region until some kind of treaty or other agreement can somehow bring some degree of safety for its citizens in the neighborhood. At that point, who knows ? The Golan could conceivably be on the table, just as the whole Sinai Peninsula ... many times the territory of the Golan ... was returned to Egypt after Egypt and Israel joined in a peace treaty.
one lap 2 miles