As of mid-2025, 6,006 Druze in the Golan, roughly 20% of the 29,000-strong community, hold Israeli citizenship. This surge ...

Syria has been wracked by a new wave of deadly sectarian violence that has placed the spotlight on the Druze minority at the ...

From July 13 to 20, clashes between Druze militia groups and Sunni tribes in southern Syria drew in Syrian government forces, ...

Hundreds of Druze from Israel pushed across the border in solidarity with their Syrian cousins they feared were under attack.

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Kalman Ber and Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu issue statements stressing the bond between Israel and ...

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Israel increased its military presence along the Syrian border on Wednesday after violent clashes between Druze and Bedouin ...

Withdrawal follows announcement of truce, which a Druze spiritual leader says includes 'full integration of the province' ...

While many headlines in Israel trumpet Druze heroism and loyalty, this is no utopia. There have been rumblings of discontent about the “nation-state” law. Critics say it focuses almost ...

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.

But make no mistake about it: the Golan Druze never want the Golan returned to Syria for their own well-being and that of the region. More and more Golan Druze are taking Israeli citizenship.

Some 130,000 Israeli Druze live in the Carmel and Galilee in the country’s north. A further 20,000 reside in the Golan Heights, territory Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 war.