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In 1948, many Druze volunteered for the Israeli army and no Druze villages were destroyed or permanently abandoned. [115] Since the establishment of the state of Israel, the Druze have demonstrated solidarity with Israel and distanced themselves from Arab and Islamic radicalism. [116] Israeli Druze citizens serve in the Israel Defense Forces. [117]
The Israeli military said the victims were struck by an Iranian-made rocket carrying a 50-kilogram warhead that was fired by Lebanese Hezbollah group at a soccer field in the Druze Arab town.
Mourners gather around the coffin of Druze Israeli Lt. Col. Salman Habaka in the village of Yanuh Jat, northern Israel, on November 3. Habaka was killed during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip ...
The presence of Druze around Mount Hermon is documented since the founding of the Druze religion in the beginning of the 11th century. [2] Mas'ade is one of the four remaining Druze-Syrian communities on the Israeli-occupied side of the Golan Heights and on Mount Hermon, together with Majdal Shams, Ein Qiniyye and Buq'ata. Geographically a ...
Overall, in Israel, the percentage of adult citizens with a post-secondary degree is 49%. [23] In 2007, Circassian and Druze authorities in Israel launched a joint market initiative to invest in the growing tourism industry for bed-and-breakfast stays in Circassian and Druze villages, giving outsiders a chance to experience their cultures. [5]
BUQATA, Golan Heights (Reuters) -Hundreds of men from Druze Arab villages on the occupied Golan Heights protested on Wednesday against Israeli plans to set up a wind farm, some facing off with ...
Yanuh-Jat (Arabic: يانوح-جت, Hebrew: יָנוּחַ־גַ׳תּ) is an Israeli Druze village and local council in the Northern District of Israel, northeast of Acre, consisting of the villages of Yanuh and Jat, which merged in 1990.
For many of the Druze community in the Golan Heights mourning 12 youngsters killed in a missile strike at the weekend, the carnage came as a shock despite the months of daily rocket fire and air ...