Overview

• The Prime Minister’s Office called the Kan News report "totally fake news" and rejected that Israel considered ceding Mount Dov and the Shebaa Farms.
• Kan reported that negotiators examined giving the territory to Syria in return for Damascus suspending its claims to the Golan Heights.
• The idea was described as part of an American-brokered track that later stalled after massacres of Druze civilians in Syria’s Suweida region.
• Mount Dov and the Shebaa Farms have been under Israeli control since 1967 and under Israeli sovereignty since 1981, are claimed by Lebanon and Syria, and a transfer would create a Syrian exclave.
• Sources cited by Kan said the issue is not currently on the agenda, and any move would face Israeli legal hurdles requiring either a referendum or a Knesset majority.