As Syria’s civil war persists across the border, Israeli residents of the Golan Heights are anticipating the end of decades of relative calm. ALONEI HABASHAN, Israel (JTA) — A fence made of ...
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 ...
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.
MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights (AP) — 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 ...
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.