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Arab women walk through the Carmel market in Tel Aviv on May 29, 2024.

Over half of Arab Israelis believe war created a shared sense of destiny with Jews

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Screen grab of Syrian Druze discussing a call to be annexed to Israel.

Syrian Druze call to be annexed to Israel: 'What's our fate, brothers?'

Druze leadership program

ADL, Druze Religious Council launches leadership program for Druze in Israel

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Students in the first cohort of the mechina pose with Israeli and Druze flags

A pact of life: Druze-Jewish mechina prepares next generation of soldiers and leaders

A tree-planting ceremony at the Ahihud Forest, at the Sheikh Amin Tarif Memorial Site, organized by KKL-JNF

Beyond sacrifice: Honoring Druze heroes and rebuilding hope

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

THE FUNERAL takes place for Maj. (res.) Nael Fwarsy in the Druze village of Maghar, in September. He was killed in a Hezbollah drone attack in northern Israel.

Druze society demands civil equality to match their heroes military sacrifice

By AMIR KHNIFESS

An ambulance is seen at the entrance to the emergency room of Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer in Ramat Gan, Israel, July 15, 2023.

Druze ed-tech startup wins NIS 300,000 investment from Sheba Medical Center initiative

By Raquel Guertzenstein Frohlich

Col. (res.) Mofid Marai stands with members of the Jewish Agency.

The Jewish Agency elects first Druze representative to its board of governors in a historic move

By Raquel Guertzenstein Frohlich

ISRAEL HAS the world’s third-largest Druze population, after Syria and Lebanon. Here, Druze gather to contact their relatives on the Syrian side of the border from the Israeli Golan Heights.

New committee forms to connect Druze, Circassian homes to Israel's power grid, legalize homes

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

An Israeli firefighter works to put out a fire in Kiryat Shmona, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in northern Israel July 29, 2024.

Why Hezbollah is not Israel's biggest threat on the northern border

By Matthew Levitt/Los Angeles Times/TNS

MK Benny Gantz attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on June 26, 2024.

Gantz urges targeting Lebanon's infrastructure, increasing military pressure

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Druze people from Israel, the Golan Heights and Syria use speakers and microphones to communicate across the Syrian-Golan Heights border, after children and teens were killed at a soccer pitch by a rocket Israel says was fired from Lebanon, near Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Golan Heights

Jews worldwide should stand by the Druze community in Israel - opinion

By Lt. Col. (res.) Avital Leibovich

WREATHS WERE laid this week next to the soccer field in Majdal Shams where 12 children and youths were killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack last Saturday.

There’s no cookie-cutter solution for trauma

By Mai Leshem

Amir Salameh, a Druze from the village of Hurfeish, completed his pharmacy studies as a military cadet in the IDF.

Israeli-Druze pharmacist becomes doctor, rejoins IDF with a mission

By DR. ITAY GAL

US PRESIDENT Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office yesterday.

‘Golan Heights is part of northern Israel,’ White House says

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Israeli rescue forces seen at the site of a Hezbollah missile attack in the druze village of Majdal Shams, July 27, 2024.

US response to Hezbollah attack on Majdal Shams influences regional dynamics

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Netanyahu said during a visit Monday to the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights that came under attack on Saturday

Benjamin Netanyahu vows strong response to Hezbollah attack killing 12 children in Majdal Shams

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

Family and friends mourn during the funeral service of druze children who were killed at a soccer field from a missile fired from Lebanon, in the druze village of Majdal Shams, in the Golan Heights, July 28, 2024.

Lebanese Druze 'Appalled and heartbroken by Hezbollah’s Majdal Shams massacre'