From Hostility to Service: Golan Druze joining the IDF in record numbers
The IDF reports a sharp rise in enlistment from the Golan Druze, with more than 400 joining in the past year alone.
The IDF reports a sharp rise in enlistment from the Golan Druze, with more than 400 joining in the past year alone.
Miriam Peretz is one of Israel’s most revered public figures, known for extraordinary resilience in the face of profound personal loss.
Over 80% of Druze men enlist in the IDF.
Some 262 Druze civilians were recently massacred in Syria.
Over ninety people, Druze and Bedouin alike, were killed within just two days
Videos circulated on social media showed pro-regime fighters forcibly shaving the moustaches of captured Druze militiamen, Druze clerics, and even the corpses of Druze men.
IDF forces have operated a mobile medical facility near Khathar in southern Syria, treating over 500 locals, mainly from the Syrian-Druze community, while reinforcing Golan Heights security.
Israeli soldiers in the Syrian Golan raided the former Syrian Army headquarters responsible for Mount Hermon under the former regime.
Israel vows to defend the Druze community and has called on Damascus to rein in organizations in the country seeking to harm minority groups. By
Several Druze leaders in border villages between Syria and Israel have voiced their preference to join Israel, rejecting the prospect of living under the rule of Islamist extremists.
Residents of six Druze villages in the Golan have expressed a desire to have them annexed by Israel.
‘Residents of Jenin, Allah is on your side,’ one soldier says, while others giggle in the background, in clip released shortly after seven troops were seriously wounded in a raid.
Saadi was responsible for a number of shooting attacks, and provided weapons to other terrorists.
