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SEVERAL PARENTS of the 12 Druze children killed in Majdal Shams by a Hezbollah rocket pose with ADL officials. From the right are the writer Marina Rosenberg, Alma’s mother Naila Fakhr al-Din, and ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.

What Israel's bereaved parents want for the future

By MARINA ROSENBERG

Israeli security forces at the scene where a missile fired from Lebanon hit an open area near the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, September 4, 2024

Hezbollah creating 'new norm' in Israel's North with escalating rocket barrages

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Druze have been serving in the IDF since the state was born.

How has Israel's Druze community been faring after the Majdal Shams attack?

Sagi Balasha, Ogen CEO

Ogen's new initiative provides lifeline to war-affected israelis

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The Fitch Ratings building is seen in New York

Fitch downgrades Israel's credit rating to A amid geopolitical tensions and ongoing conflict

IDF strikes Hezbollah terrorist structure August 6, 2024

Israel Air Force strikes Hezbollah military structure in Lebanon

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

Majdal Shams village.

After the disaster: The state plans a more optimistic future for Majdal Shams

By Ofer Petersburg

Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel, August 4, 2024

Hezbollah launches rocket barrage at northern Israel's Upper Galilee

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

DRUZE RESIDENTS light candles in memory of the 12 children killed in a Hezbollah missile attack in the Golan Heights, on July 28.

How the world media distorted the Majdal Shams soccer field slaughter of kids

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

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.

‘The Druze are going nowhere, regardless of cost,’ IDF colonels tell The Media Line

By Giorgia Valente/The Media Line

CLASS IS in session for Arab students at the Beit Hanina neighborhood’s Noreen school.

Majdal Shams attack in Golan Heights reveals urgent need for enhanced school safety

By Lizy Delaricha

A flight information boards display cancelled flights at the Beirut–Rafic Hariri International Airport, in Beirut, Lebanon July 29, 2024.

European countries urge citizens to leave Lebanon amid Hezbollah-Israel rising tensions

By REUTERS

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

IRAN’S SUPREME Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (center) and Islamic Jihad chief Ziad al-Nakhala in Tehran, on Tuesday.

Israel’s strike on Hamas Leader Haniyeh signals defiance to Iran

A Palestinian carries a picture of late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran, during a march to condemn his killing, at Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon July 31, 2024.

Pinpoint assassinations: Israel’s message to Hezbollah, Lebanon, Hamas, and Iran

People visit the scene of the deadly missile attack at a soccer field in the druze village of Majdal Shams, in the Golan Heights, July 28, 2024.

'We see the Druze as family': Jewish orgs. announce aid for Majdal Shams

By RIKKI ZAGELBAUM