While only under 10% of the global Druze population lives in Israel (over 120,000), it is often joked in Israel that the Druze are more Israeli than Jews, Anan Kheir, ...

Israel says its recent strikes and incursions in Syria are to protect the Druze religious group. Some in the community welcome it, but some say they're being used to further Israel's political goals.

Pained and angered by deadly clashes between Islamist and Druze gunmen in Syria in recent weeks, leaders of Israel's own Druze minority say the Israeli military was right to intervene to defend ...

Israeli Druze are watching their government's pressure campaign in Syria. Israel says recent airstrikes inside Syria are to protect the Druze religious minority there from sectarian violence.

As a result, Lebanese Druze are loyal to Lebanon, Israeli Druze are loyal to Israel and so forth. Druze Arabs were universally granted Israeli citizenship when the nation was born in 1948.

As Syria’s Druze minority reels from violence, Israel pursues an opening. Attacks on the Druze by Islamist gunmen backing the new Syrian government have pushed some in the community to consider ...

Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu said: ‘Israel will not allow the Druze community in Syria to be harmed given the deep commitment to our Druze brothers in Israel.’ Sectarian violence in a ...

Most of the other Druze live in Lebanon and Israel, including in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast War and annexed in 1981. ... Site Map. Store.

Israel says its recent strikes and incursions in Syria are to protect the Druze religious group. Some in the community welcome it, but some say they're being used to further Israel's political goals.