Which region is hotly contested by Israel and Syria?

Answer 1

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.