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The Silent Shift: Golan’s Druze Turning to Israel?
It tore through the sky and struck a soccer field in Majdal Shams, leaving destruction in its wake. But the real impact wasn’t just physical, it was psychological. The Druze of the Golan Heights, once ...
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Who are the Druze? A look at the community following a deadly attack
On Wednesday, Hezbollah confirmed that Shukr had been killed. Majdal Shams is a Druze town. Here is a quick look at the community at the centre of the attack: The Druze are an ethnoreligious ...
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Syrian Druze fight for rights of all minorities in post-Assad Syria
In Sweida, a stronghold of the Druze community in southern Syria, the community fights to ensure the new regime acknowledges ...
Faith: Meaning of truth now more personal
Truth was always hard. After all what is truth in the ultimate? In modern days we have accepted that individuals see the ...
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Horror at deaths of 12 children unites Druze across borders. But Mideast's wars tear at their bonds
Alma Ayman Fakhr al-Din, a lively 11-year-old who loved basketball and learning languages, was playing on a soccer field a week ago in Majdal Shams, a Druze town in the Israeli-occupied Golan ...
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Rojava delegation, Druze leader discuss Syria’s political future
A delegation from the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) on Tuesday visited Syria’s southern Druze-majority Suwayda province and ...
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The new freedom of the Druze in Syria, caught between Israel and Hts
Suwayda, from our correspondent. The procession of sheikhs marches toward the home of Hikmat al-Hijri, the spiritual leader of the Druze in Syria, known locally as Abu Salman. In Qanawat ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency9mon
In the Druze town of Majdal Shams, tensions at Israel’s northern border bring danger and economic devastation (April 2024)
“We’re 100% down from a regular year,” said Talia Welli, the owner of a sports store in the nearby Druze town of Mas’ade that sells sleds, winter coats, gloves and ski hats in addition to ...
The Times of Israel26d
Taboo no more: One in five Golan Druze now holds Israeli citizenship
Against the backdrop of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, the fall of the Assad regime, and the tragic death of 12 Druze children in Majdal Shams in a Hezbollah rocket attack, the number of Druze ...
The Daily Telegraph1mon
Druze in Syria ‘fear new Isis-like leaders and want Israeli rule’
The residents of a Druze community in southern Syria have expressed a desire to become part of Israel to prevent assaults by “radical Islamists.” A video circulating on social media shows a ...
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Down from the mountain: Druze in Syria show growing resistance to Assad
The Druze-majority province of Swaida in southern Syria has been one of the calmest regions in the country during nearly two years of popular insurrection, but the last month has seen an upswing ...
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In Majdal Shams, families mourn children killed in rocket attack — and feel the embrace of their Jewish neighbors
Though Golan Druze have a complicated relationship with Israel, Israelis have collectively grieved the dead youths and spoken of the strike as an Israeli national tragedy. MAJDAL SHAMS ...