Email from Zionist Organization of America ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA NEWS RELEASE ZOA Coalition (Slate #15) Welcomes Friends of the Golan Heights to Our Slate. Please Vote for ZOA Coalition Today!   ZOA Coalition (Slate #15) is honored and excited to welcome Friends of the Golan Heights to the ZOA Coalition. With this new great addition, plus other recent new members of our slate (S.A.F.E. Campus, Jexit, Jew Hate Database), plus all our wonderful leading groups, the ZOA Coalition now includes the thirty-five strongest pro-Israel organizations defending Jews, Jewish students, Israel-Judea-Samaria and defending Jewish safety. Please VOTE for the ZOA Coalition – Slate #15 today!! ZOA Coalition looks forward to working with Friends of the Golan Heights to further our mutual efforts to educate the public about the importance of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan, and to direct funding towards building Jewish medical, security and other institutions in the Golan (in addition to ZOA Coalition’s vital efforts to direct funding to build medical, security and other institutions in Judea-Samaria and decimated southern and northern Israel areas). Friends of the Golan Heights is a natural for ZOA Coalition. ZOA Coalition was the driving force promoting U.S. recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights (which occurred during Pres. Trump’s first term); and fighting against the Biden administration’s attempts to weaken that recognition. The U.S. recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan shortly after ZOA Coalition leader Morton Klein testified in the U.S. Congress that: Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights is a key xxxxxx against radical regimes and affiliates that threaten the security and stability of the United States, Israel, the entire Middle East region, and beyond. (Ongoing Syrian warfare demonstrates this again.) The Jewish people's long Jewish history in the Golan Heights dates from Biblical times, as demonstrated by numerous finds of ancient Jewish synagogues in the Golan. There were, moreover, extensive Jewish land purchases and farms in the Golan in the 1800s onwards. The Golan was included in the original Mandate territory lawfully guaranteed to the Jewish people. Israeli sovereignty in the Golan is essential for curbing Syrian attempts to divert Israel’s main water sources away from Israel. Israeli sovereignty in the Golan has vital, irreplaceable strategic importance to Israel’s security, including by providing the buffer that prevented the Syrian army from overrunning Israel during the Yom Kippur war; providing essential lookout posts; preventing the constant sniper attacks on Jewish farmers that occurred when Syria controlled the Golan (1946-1967); countering recent Syrian and Iranian incursions into the disengagement zone; and preventing attempted Syrian and Iranian rocket and drone launches into Israel throughout recent years. See Morton Klein’s Written Congressional Testimony on the Recognition of Israeli Sovereignty Over the Golan Heights, before the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, July 17, 2018. Please VOTE for the ZOA Coalition – Slate #15 today!! VOTE FOR ZOA COALITION - SLATE #15   Your vote for the ZOA Coalition, Slate #15, is a vote for all these great organizations in the ZOA Coalition: Amariah • American Friends of Ateret Cohanim • American Friends of Judea & Samaria (AFJS) • American Friends of Likud • Americans Against Antisemitism • Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI) • Americans for Peace & Tolerance (APT) • B.A.M. (Bad A—Mothers) • Betar • Chovevei Zion • Emet Va Emunah • #End Jew Hatred • EZRA USA: Russian Jewish Youth • Friends of the Golan Heights • Israel Heritage Foundation • JCC Watch • Jew Hate Database • Jexit • National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) • NORPAC • North Carolina Coalition for Israel (NCCI) • One Israel Fund (OIF) • Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce • Rieders Family Foundation • S.A.F.E. Campus • Save the West • Students Supporting Israel (SSI) • The Lawfare Project • The Greenwald Family Impact Foundation (TGFIF) • The Gross Family Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Holocaust • The Israel Innovation Fund • United Mashadi Jewish Community of America (UMJCA) • Young Jewish Conservatives.   Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email       Copyright © Zionist Organization of America 2025, All rights reserved. Zionist Organization of America | 633 Third Ave 31 B | New York, NY 10017 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice