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The settlement is located near the community of Kela Alon,[10] where the Beruchim community, which was founded in 1991, was located.[11] The area of the settlement of Beruchim was planned for future expansion of the settlement of Kela Alon, and is inhabited by a few residents.[12]
The settlement is very close to the Petroleum Road. This route separates Beruchim / Ramat Trump from East, and Kela Alon to the west of it.[citation needed]
History
The Golan Eagle honoring President Trump - Trump Heights, Golan.[13]
A kibbutz was established in the area in the 1980s. However, it disassembled after a few years.[14] In 1991, an Israeli settlement called Brukhim was established on the land of the future Trump Heights. It failed to attract many residents.[15] Brukhim had ten residents as of 2019.[12][6]
The settlement did not yet have any funding at the time of its announced establishment.[19][20] Due to this, it was met with criticism by then-opposition leaders in Israel. Zvi Hauser called it a "dummy-resolution".[20] In Axios, it was referred to as a "public relations stunt".[19]Gideon Remez later referred to the settlement as a Potemkin village.[21] However, the Ministry of Construction entered the preliminary planning stage at this time.[19]
In the first stage, 110 housing units were planned,[7][10] with the regional council planning as many as 400 homes in the area in the long term.[22] The population of the community was planned to consist of both religious and secular settlers.[23] On August 6, 2019, the National Planning and Building Council approved the establishment of the new settlement.[24] A pre-military mechina boarding school was inaugurated in the settlement on November 7, 2019,[9] and it was reportedly attended by a community of teenagers by October 2020.[25] As of June 2020[update], construction of housing had not begun.[14] At that time, all but two letters of the entrance sign had been removed by either vandals or rough weather.[14][26] However, the sign was restored by January 2021.[27][28]
In June 2020, Israel's government approved 8 million Israeli new shekels (about 2.3 million in US dollars) in funding for the Trump Heights settlement.[29][30] On July 4, 2020,[citation needed] a major sculptural memorial was placed adjacent to the entrance to Trump Heights, honoring President Donald J. Trump. It depicts an eagle in front of a menorah.[31][32] Settlers began arriving in April 2021,[33] with as many as twenty families having been expected to arrive that summer.[27]
Economy
The main economic sectors of the region are agriculture and tourism.[6][14] The immediate area reportedly experienced an increase in tourism after the Trump Heights settlement was announced.[34]
The settlement is about 45 minutes from a hospital in Safed,[14] and 30 minutes from a market in Kiryat Shmona.[14][38] It is about 64.4 kilometers (40 miles) southwest of Damascus, Syria,[39] and 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) from the armistice line with Syria.[20]
