MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights — Dozens of clerics and others from Syria’s minority Druze community crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights Friday for the first time in decades. The ...

The Golan Heights is home to 24,000 Druze, an Arab minority who practice an offshoot of Islam and also live in Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.

Although Israeli citizenship is open for the Druze of the Golan Heights, most have opted not to take it, though they have residency rights. Some families are split apart by what is known as the ...

Dozens of Syrian Druze Make a Rare Visit to Israeli-Controlled Golan Heights MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (AP) — Dozens of clerics and others from Syria’s minority Druze community crossed into ...