Druze religious elders from Syria make historic visit to Israel
Around 100 Druze sheikhs from villages on the slope of Mount Hermon in Syria, overlooked by the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, are due to visit shrines including sites held to be the tomb of prophet Shuayb, west of Tiberias, in the Lower Galilee.
Dozens of Syrian Druze make a rare visit to Israeli-controlled Golan Heights
Over half of the roughly 1 million Druze worldwide live in Syria. Most other Druze live in Lebanon and Israel and the Golan Heights, a rocky plateau seized from Syria by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. Israel’s 1981 annexation of the area is recognized only by the United States, with the rest of the world considering it occupied Syrian territory.
In contrast to Syria, Druze in Israel have forged what is often referred to as "a covenant of blood" with the Jewish state. Jethro—the biblical prophet Moses' father-in-law—is the most ...
Syria's Druze seek a place in a changing nation, navigating pressures from the government and Israel
Members of the small religious sect find themselves caught between two forces that many of them distrust: the new, ...
Israel's defense ministry says the military has been instructed to prepare to defend a Druze settlement in the suburbs of ...
The group is expected to meet Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, as well as other members of the community and to visit a shrine. There was no immediate ...
These Syrian Druze know better. For them, Israel is the solution, not the problem. The Druze in the Golan Heights all lived under Syrian rule until 1967, when Israel captured two-thirds of the ...
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