Taking into consideration the closely-knit relation between the identity of a place, and the identification of the inhabitants populating it, the article examines Israel's mode of governance over the remaining Syrian residents of the Golan Heights after its occupation in 1967 as a geopolitics of identity and identification. First, and in order to erase the Golan's Syrian identity, Israel transformed the Golan's space through the systematic destruction of the territory's built environment while shaping it into one, which resembles post-1948 Israel. Second, the spatial transformation was configured with strategies that were deployed in order to govern the Syrian Druze who remained in the territory, and were similar to those Israel used vis-a-vis the Druze community residing within Israel, mainly during the period of internal military rule (1948-1966). Despite these efforts, the Syrian Druze in the Golan Heights resisted Israel's geopolitics of identity and identification by clinging to their Syrian identity in a way that partially undermined Israel's normalization strategy. For Jewish Israelis the Golan became Israeli, but for its Druze residents it remained Syrian.