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Syria / Druze

Israeli Druze Fear for Syrian Relatives Following Extremist Attacks

By Raphael Poch

Northern border mayor warns of regional threats after the massacre of Syrian Druze and the destruction of two villages by HTS-backed militias.

IDF & Security / Syria / Druze

Israel Delivers 10,000 Humanitarian Aid Packages for Syrian Druze

By Pesach Benson / TPS

The IDF is coordinating the deliveries with Sheikh Mowafaq Ṭarīf, spiritual leader of the Israeli Druze community, the Druze Religious Council and “other regional partners.”

Syria / Islamists

Exclusive: Syrian Druze Deny Agreeing to Deal With New Islamist Government

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

Some Druze who did meet with President Ahmed al-Sharaa “were extremely low-ranking people who do not reflect the position in Sweida.”

Syria

Alawite Genocide in Syria as Local Journalist Says ‘Only Israel Stands by Us’

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

“They are carrying out genocide and ethnic cleansing, mainly of the Alawite minority, and all on a sectarian and religious basis,” the journalist said.

Syria / Druze

Israel to ‘Soon’ Allow Syrian Druze to Work in Golan, Defense Minister Says

By Pesach Benson / TPS

The Druze of southern Syria are optimistic about a recent Israeli pledge to protect their communities.

Druze / Government / Business and Economy

Israel Approves $1 Billion Development Plan for Druze, Circassian Communities

By Pesach Benson / TPS

“This is an unprecedented plan that will catapult Druze society forward,” Netanyahu said of the largest economic initiative proposed for those communities.

Syria / Druze

‘Israel is the Iron Dome of the Druze in Syria,’ say Syrian Druze Residents

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

The Druze of southern Syria are optimistic about a recent Israeli pledge to protect their communities.

Terrorism / Druze / Israeli Arabs

Haifa Terrorist Identified as Druze, Most of the Victims Were Arab

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Druze community renounced the terrorist and ordered that no one go to his funeral.

Featured / Abu Ali Express

The Druze-Kurdish Federation

By Abu Ali Express

The Kurds and Druze in Syria may be looking to create a contiguous land link all the way to Israel.

Syria / Druze

Golan Druze View of Jewish State Changing After Assad’s Fall, Israeli Druze Leader Says

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

“The people of Majdal Shams were scared to normalize or become citizens of Israel because of the Assad regime,” Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif told JNS. “Now the situation is different.”

Druze / News Briefs / The Knesset

Druze Politician Afef Abed takes Gallant’s Knesset Seat

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Gallant announced his resignation from parliament on Jan 1., some two months after being fired as defense minister.

Syria / Druze

‘Like Watching the Berlin Wall Fall’: Israeli Druze Eager to Reconnect With Syrian Families

By Sveta Listratov

"For the first time in decades, my relatives in Syria feel free to speak to me.”

Syria / Druze / News Briefs

Israel Reaching Out to Syrian Druze Communities

By Noah Michaeli

An estimated 700,000-800,000 Druze live in Syria, mostly in southwestern areas near Israel and Jordan. They make up around four percent of the Syrian population.

Druze / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Israel Launches New Educational Program to Teach Students About Druze Culture

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The program seeks to cultivate tolerance and respect towards Druze tradition and way of life, and to develop the ability to maintain a respectful dialogue with other communities while listening to diverse positions.

Left vs. Right / Druze

The Jewish Agency Elects First Druze Representative to its Board of Governors

By Jewish Press News Desk

Unfortunately, the Board of Governors turned the appointment into a leftwing politically partisan demonstration.

IDF & Security / Druze / Israel At War: Iron Swords / Gaza / Hamas

High-Ranking IDF Druze Tank Brigade Commander Killed in Gaza Attack

By Sveta Listratov

Col. Ehsan Daqsa, who commanded the Israel Defense Force’s 401st Armored Brigade, was killed in battle in the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza.

Druze / Police and Crime

Ambassador’s Son Found Decapitated in Northern Israel

By Pesach Benson / TPS

The 43-year-old victim was the son of the late Naim Araidi, a noted Druze author and scholar who also served as Israel’s ambassador to Norway from 2012-2014.

Druze / News Briefs

As Druze Mark Holiday, Figures Show Tenfold Growth Since Israel’s Founding

By Pesach Benson / TPS

The holiday marks the anniversary of the death of the Biblical figure, Jethro, to who the Druze trace their ancestry.

IDF & Security / Druze / Israel At War: Iron Swords / News Briefs / Kosher Food News

Druze Restaurant Goes Kosher to Unite With Soldiers

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“I want to feed all the Israeli soldiers! They all are like my children, doesn’t matter, Druze or Jewish,” said Basma Hino, the owner of the restaurant Noor.

Israel / Obituaries

Israeli-Druze Fireman Dies Saving Man Trapped in Pit

By Gil Tanenbaum / TPS

The firemen entered the 8-meter pit to rescue a man who had fallen in.

Druze / Jordan

Jordan Allowing Golan Druze to Enter Kingdom Without Visas or Preconditions

By Baruch Yedid / TPS

This move negates the need for Druze to get an Israeli ID to visit an Arab country.

Photo of the Day

Time to Make the Pita

By Photo of the Day

A woman prepares Druze pita in Birkat Ram, northern Golan Heights.

Druze / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority

Five Israeli Druze Arrested for Retaliatory Kidnapping of Hebron Arabs

By Pesach Benson / TPS

The Druze kidnapped the PA Arabs after PA Arabs kidnapped and murdered Tinan Fero.

Druze / Palestinian Authority / Islamic Jihad

Former Israeli minister: Druze Tribal Warfare Tactics a Model for Israel

By Ariel Ben Solomon / JNS

“The Druze youth protesting in the streets and obstructing roads delivered a message to the Palestinians,” says Ayoub Kara.

IDF & Security / Druze / Palestinian Authority

3 Druze IDF Soldiers Arrested, Suspected of Hurling Bombs at PA Arab's Home

By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk

Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi decided to appoint Lt. Col. Ayub Kiyof from the Druze community to commander of the Menashe Brigade.

Headline / Terrorism / Druze / Palestinian Authority / Islamic Jihad

Terrified of the Druze, Arabs Return Stolen Boy's Body

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Druze threatened they will start kidnapping and killing residents of Jenin if the PA Terrorists don't return the boy's body..

Druze / Politics / Government / History / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Egypt

Former Israeli Communications Minister: I Was Anwar Sadat's Druze Translator

By Rachel Avraham

“Presidents Obama and Clinton's mistake was that they thought there could be democracy in Egypt,” Kara explained.

IDF & Security / Druze / News Briefs

First Druze Colonel in Israeli Air Force Takes Command of Maintenance Unit

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

Col. Awad Suleiman “burst through the glass ceiling, thereby forming an example and an inspiration for so many,” says his commander.

IDF & Security / Druze / Bedouin / Religion / Israeli Arabs

Religious Minorities Request Their Texts be Read at State Ceremonies for Fallen IDF Soldiers

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

The petitioners want more inclusiveness in the official ceremonies for religious-minorities who have also fallen in battle.

IDF & Security / Syria / Druze / News Briefs

Israel's Supreme Court Reduces Sentence for Druze Spy

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

In August 2012, Makat was released from prison after serving 27 years for previous security offenses.

Headline / Druze / Politics / Government / The Knesset / Boycott / BDS / Anti-Israel NGOs / United Nations (UN) / European Union

Report: NIF, EU, UN Drive Ferocious Campaign to Quash Israel's Nationality Law

By JNi.Media

The Struggle Headquarters propaganda maliciously misrepresents the law, using a false comparison between two Border Guard officers, one a Jew, the other a Druze.

FirstOneThrough

The Basic Law’s “Unique” Problem

By Paul Gherkin

The few protests by Israeli Druze are sparked by the knowledge that the Jewish left and European funded-NGOs will embrace its cause and fight side-by-side in the streets. In the Jewish State there is a left-wing army that is willing to join their protests in a manner that never existed before.

Headline / Druze / Jewish / Politics

Netanyahu at Cabinet Meeting: Israel is the National State of the Jewish People, Exclusively

By Jewish Press News Desk

Individual rights, Netanyahu said, are anchored in many of the state's laws, but not Jewish national rights.

Featured / Terrorism / IDF & Security / Druze / The Temple Mount / Sports / Israeli Arabs

Real Madrid FC Joins Hundreds who Honor Slain Druze Border Policemen

By JNi.Media

Stawi's family decided to honor Hail's memory by holding an annual race, The Ramos Race, named after Hail's son who was only three weeks old at the time of the attack.

Israel / Syria / News Briefs

Syria Gunfire Hits Home in Majdal Shams on Israeli Golan Heights

By Jewish Press News Desk

Syrian forces opened fire on an IDF drone flying over the Golan Heights.

Headline / IDF & Security / Syria

Breaking News: IDF Bolsters Troop Levels in Golan Heights

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The IDF is prepared to prevent a military takeover of the Syrian-Druze village of el-Hader, adjacent to the Israel-Syria border,

Photo of the Day

Netanyahu Visits the Homes of the Fallen Druze Border Police Officers

By Photo of the Day

Hayil Satawi and Kamil Shanaan were murdered by Muslim terrorists on the Temple Mount.

Headline / Terrorism / Druze / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Israeli Arabs

Calculated Risk Proves Israel Can Change the Temple Mount Status Quo

By Jewish Press News Desk

There were no Muslim riots or protests in Israel in response to the closure of the Temple Mount and Old City of Jerusalem.

Jewish / Politics / Police and Crime / Government / News Briefs / Religion / Israeli Arabs

Christians, Rabbi, Druze, No Muslims at Interfaith Meeting in Restored Church with President Rivlin

By JNi.Media

'The last time I was here, we stood together and looked at the burnt walls and the terrible graffiti. Today, I visit here again, and see the renewal of this historic, special, and holy place.'

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Druze / News Briefs / Judea & Samaria / Settlements

Friday Night Infiltation into Beitar

By Jewish Press News Desk

Hundreds of IDF soldiers searched in the fog and rain for the Arab infiltrators into the Jewish town.

Phantom Nation

Phantom Nation - Potpourri

By Israel News Talk Radio

Sha'i tackles the current hot topics of more Muslim terror, the Druze, the French, the "Gays" and Reform's lost sheep.

Druze / Politics / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Chessed and Tzedaka

Jewish Agency Launches Food Co-Op in Druze Village

By JNi.Media

The food co-ops operate as social business ventures, offering consumers significantly less expensive groceries and investing profits in local social empowerment initiatives.

Middle East / Levant / Druze / US / News Briefs / The Knesset

‘The US is Preventing Israel From Joining Sunni Coalition’ Says Government Official

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“The US is ignoring and not helping with steps to bring our countries together, and I think this in itself is a method of preventing Israel from joining the Saudi coalition,” explained Kara.

IDF & Security / Syria / News Briefs / Islamists / Health and Medicine / ISIS

Israeli Paramedic Reflects on Treating Wounded Syrians

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

IDF St. Sgt. "N" explained "all pain is universal" when asked how she communicated with Syrian patients.

Syria / Druze / News Briefs

Ten Israeli Druze Arrested in Connection to Lynching

By Jewish Press News Desk

In Monday night's attack, Druze citizens attacked an IDF ambulance and murdered the wounded patient being transported from Syria to an Israeli hospital for treatment.

Syria / Druze / News Briefs

Druze Mob Attacks IDF Ambulance, Reportedly Kills Syrian Wounded

By Jewish Press News Desk

The IDF ambulance was transporting 2 wounded Syrian to an Israeli hospital.

Israel / Syria / News Briefs

Plight of Syria's Druze Population Strikes Chord in Israel

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Syria’s ever-deepening civil war has for the first time put the country's 800,000 strong population under threat of genocide by Islamic extremists.

Syria / News Briefs

Al Nusra Killers in Syrian-Druze Massacre to Face Islamic Trial

By Jewish Press News Desk

But it may too little, too late, as the Druze community have begun organizing,..

Druze / Government / News Briefs

Israeli Cabinet Approves 'Unprecedented' Development Plan for Minority Populations

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The figure amounts to triple the sum allocated in the last five-year plan, which expired in this year.

IDF & Security / Druze / News Briefs

IDF Disbands Druze Battalion in Favor of Full Integration

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The decision to disband the homogeneous battalion comes as a response to an ever growing demand by young Druze soldiers to integrate into various IDF units and positions.

Israel / Politics / Elections / News Briefs

Ayoub Kara Demands Cabinet Seat, Or Else

By Jewish Press News Desk

Kara said that this coalition must include a Druze minister to let everyone know the Druze are an integral part of the country.

IDF & Security / News Briefs

Six Jews Arrested for Beating Druze Student

By Jewish Press News Desk

The "Ugly Israeli" has taken its form in six idiot thugs who beat a Druze student, who served in the IDF, because he was speaking Arabic. A Jerusalem court was told the gang of Jews attacked the music student at the Central Bus Station in Jerusalem. The victim, identified as Tommy Hasson, served in the […]

Israel / News Briefs

Haredim Join Druze Mourners at Funeral for Slain Policeman

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The motto of the Druze is to be faithful to the country in which they live.

The Muqata

Har Nof Community Organizing Buses to Druze Policeman's Funeral

By Jameel@Muqata

A grassroots initiative of hundreds of Chareidim from Har Nof is underway to attend the funeral of Zidan Saif and to pay their respects to the fallen policeman and to the Druze community in the village of Yanuch-Jat in Northern Israel.

Terrorism / Druze / News Briefs / Jerusalem

Hero Police Officer Zidan Sayif has Died of his Wounds

By Jewish Press News Desk

Zidan Sayif's brave actions saved the lives of civilians in the synagogue.

Terrorism / Druze / Police and Crime / News Briefs / Jerusalem / The Muqata

Israeli-Druze Policeman - First on Scene in Har Nof Massacre, Fighting for His Life

By Jameel@Muqata

Officer Zidan Sayif saved lives in the Har Nof Massacre, but was shot in the head and is now fighting for his life.

Druze / News Briefs

Druze Doctor Appointed Ziv Hospital Chief

By Jewish Press News Desk

Dr. Salmaan Zarka has the honor of being appointed the first doctor from the Druze community to be appointed as head of an Israeli hospital.

Druze / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israeli Arabs

Ex-MK from Zoabi’s Party Jailed for Meeting Terrorist in Syria

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Balad party now boasts at least two former MKs who aided or visited the enemy. Haneen Zoabi a candidate for number three.

Terrorism / News Briefs / Israeli Arabs

Druze Community Shows Solidarity with Kidnap Teens' Families

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israel's Druze community has sent a letter of solidarity to the families of the kidnapped teens.

United with Israel

Israeli Organization Empowers Arab and Druze Women

By Rachel Avraham

Haifa’s Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Center promotes peace and the human rights of women.

Terrorism / Syria / News Briefs

Rebels’ Car Bomb Kills 18 in Christina-Druze Damascus Suburb

By Jewish Press News Desk

Syrian rebels set off a car bomb and killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens of others in a predominantly Christian and Druze suburb of Damascus Tuesday night. Rebels have suspected Syrian Druze and Christians, who have to portray themselves as neutral in the civil war, of secretly supporting the Assad regime. Official state […]

Rubin Reports

Arab World War Two: Sunni versus Shia

By Barry Rubin

A mob of up to 3000 regular people, the neighbors, marched on the house where the Shia were gathered.

Israel / Syria / News Briefs

Druze in Israel Ask to Bring 20 Families from Syria

By JTA

Druze leaders living on the Israeli Golan Heights asked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to allow Druze from 20 families in Syria to enter Israel. The Druze living in Syria had left the Golan as students, many marrying and starting families, but the request could expand to include family members of the Golan Druze stuck in […]

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Syria / US / Iran / News Briefs / Hezbollah

Israel Calms War Fever, Re-Opens Northern Air Space

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Syria aims missiles at Israel. Lebanon on alert. Israel moves Iron Domes to the north. War? If war were likely, Bibi would not be in China. The IDF already has re-opened air space in the north.

Serials

Persuaded - Chapter II

By Barbara Bensoussan

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