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News In Druze town where hundreds breached border with Syria, residents mourn one tragedy while fearing another
“They cried, they hugged, and then they went back to opposite sides of the fence, in enemy states,” recalled a soldier who witnessed family reunions during the brief breach
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Opinion What exactly is going on between Israel and Syria — and is the prospect of peace dead?
Yesterday, Israeli airstrikes damaged the Syrian Ministry of Defense in the heart of Damascus
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Fast Forward Syrian detente hopes dim as president accuses Israel of sowing ‘chaos and destruction’ with strikes
Israel intervened in a situation involving the Druze, a religious minority whose members live in Syria and Israel
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News 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
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Sports Playing rugby in Israel is unusual enough. So what’s it like for a Druze woman?
'They're not used to females with muscles,' says Kamar Halabi, the sole non-Jew on Israel's national women's rugby team
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Fast Forward Druze Diplomat Says He Was Mistreated At Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s ambassador to Panama, who is Druze, criticized security at Ben Gurion Airport, alleging that he and his family were delayed because they come from an Arab village in northern Israel. Reda Mansour described the incident that happened on Saturday in a Facebook post. He said the security officer at the entrance…
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Opinion Israel’s Nation State Bill Shamed The Minorities Who Give Us Pride
I had the privilege of serving as the spokesperson of the first Druze Major General, Yousef Mishleb. I once tried to convince him to do an interview in Arabic on Al Jazeera because I thought it would send a positive message to the Arabic speaking world. “Peter,” the General told me when I asked him…
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Fast Forward Two IDF Soldiers Arrested For Brutal Attack On Druze Soldier
(JTA) — Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were arrested Sunday night in connection with an on-base attack against a Druze soldier. The soldier, who said he was attacked and beaten by fellow soldiers on his base in northern Israel, was taken to the hospital with a broken nose, and cuts on his head and face….
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