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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 470

Druze

Residents in the Israeli Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights celebrate on December 9, 2024, after Islamist-led rebels declared that they had taken the Syrian capital in a lightning offensive, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
January 6, 2025, 6:08 am
Taboo no more: One in five Golan Druze now holds Israeli citizenship
Requests for naturalization hit an all-time high as communities warm to the idea. While future trends are unpredictable, developments in Syria will have a huge impact
By Fadi Amun in partnership with Shomrim
This handout photo provided by Syria's Interim Government shows Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader Abu Mohammed al-Julani, now using his real name Ahmed al-Sharaa, meeting with UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen (not pictured) in Damascus on December 15, 2024. (Syrian Interim Government/AFP)
December 17, 2024, 10:41 am
Syrian rebel leader: Territory will not be used to launch attacks against Israel
Chief of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which ousted Assad regime, pledges commitment to 1974 buffer-zone agreement, says IDF activity in Syria ‘must end’ and Israel ‘has to pull back’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Lebanese Druze politician Wiam Wahhab speaks to Al-Jadeed TV, October 28, 2022. (Screenshot/File)
December 16, 2024, 9:38 pm
Lebanese Druze politician says country should ‘permanently abandon’ war on Israel
Hezbollah ally Wiam Wahhab, who heads the minor Arab Unification Party, says ‘the nation does not want war’ and the only victor in the region is Netanyahu
By ToI Staff
Troops of the IDF's 91st Division operate in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo issued on December 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 16, 2024, 2:27 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 16: Day 437 – How is the ceasefire holding? ToI reports from Lebanon
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman updates us on renewed optimism for a Gaza hostage release deal and why Israel is shuttering its embassy in Ireland
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman
Security forces arrest two residents of the northern Druze village of Mas'ade on suspicion spying for Iran's IRGC Quds Force, in a photo cleared for publication on December 6, 2024. (Israel Police)
December 6, 2024, 12:13 pm
Father, son from northern Druze village accused of spying for Iran’s IRGC Quds Force
Shin Bet reveals it arrested duo from Mas’ade in November, charging they passed info on IDF activity in Golan Heights to Iranian handlers — the latest in flood of espionage cases
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Members of the Druze community attend a funeral in the Druze village of Maghar, on September 20, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
November 20, 2024, 2:35 pm
New curriculum to highlight Druze community and its ties to the state, ministry says
Announcement of program for middle school students comes days after the Jewish Agency elected a first Druze representative to its Board of Governors
By Gavriel Fiske
The funeral of Colonel Ehsan Daqsa in Druze community Daliyat al-Karmel on October 21, 2024. (Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90)
October 23, 2024, 2:15 pm
Daily Briefing Oct. 23: Day 383 – Two soldiers buried, neither one Jewish, both minorities
Sue Surkes discusses two funerals, as well as budget cuts to the agriculture ministry; Diana Bletter talks about PTSD of Nova survivors and rockets in northern Klil
By ToI Staff
Nechama Shaina Langer, center, organizer of a healing day retreat in Majdal Shams. From left, Chayals Angels founder Tasha Cohen; Megan Sellway; Naela Fakher Eldin, mother of Alma Fakher Eldin, who was killed in the July 27 Hezbollah attack; and Naela's mother, Adele Abu Jabal on September 13, 2024. (Diana Bletter/The Times of Israel)
September 17, 2024, 8:21 am
Women travel to Majdal Shams to help mothers of children killed in Hezbollah attack
Aware of the need for mental health support in the Druze town that lost 12 children, volunteers cross a cultural divide, offering alternative treatments to ease grief
By Diana Bletter
Bnei HaGolan VeHaGalil Football Club's youth soccer team. (Bnei HaGolan VeHaGalil FC)
August 5, 2024, 3:38 pm
Broken hearts club: Northern Druze soccer club mourns teen members blown up by Hezbollah
Killed in the Majdal Shams rocket attack, Ameer Abu Saleh, Johnny Ibrahim, Hazem Abu Saleh were part of an intensely symbolic soccer team that is left bereft but remains resolute
By Shaul Adar
Noor Ibrahim, Rena Ibrahim and Tulei Abu Jabal (left to right), cousins of one of the victims, at a memorial to those killed in the July 27 attack on Majdal Shams. (Deborah Danan/JTA)
August 2, 2024, 8:49 am
In Majdal Shams, neighbors embrace Druze mourning children killed in rocket attack
Residents say they’ve felt an outpouring of love and support as Israelis have collectively grieved the 12 dead kids, speaking of the strike as a national tragedy
By Deborah Danan
A man stands near a damaged gate after a Hezbollah rocket strike on a soccer field that killed 12 children in Majdal Shams on July 28, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
July 30, 2024, 11:09 pm
Experts say all evidence shows Hezbollah behind Majdal Shams strike that killed 12
Weapons researcher says jagged shrapnel removed from wounded children is consistent with Falaq rocket; soccer field fence blown in direction indicating rocket came from the north
By AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits at the scene of a missile attack on a soccer field in the northern Druze village of Majdal Shams that killed 12 children two days earlier, July 29, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
July 29, 2024, 5:12 pm
Netanyahu met by angry crowd on visit to site of deadly rocket strike in Majdal Shams
As locals call for him to leave, prime minister pledges a ‘harsh response’ against Hezbollah after 12 children killed in Golan Heights on Saturday
By Lazar Berman
Mourners carry the coffin of Gevara Ebraheem, 11, killed in a July 27 Hezbollah rocket attack on the Druze town of Majdal Shams, on July 29, 2024 (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
July 29, 2024, 1:51 pm
Funeral held for 12th child killed in Hezbollah rocket strike on Golan soccer field
Relative of 11-year-old Gevara Ebraheem says tragedy has ‘shaken our hearts’; Gallant: No difference between Jewish kids killed in south on Oct. 7 and Druze kids killed in north
By ToI Staff
Elders and mourners attend the funeral of Gevara Ebraheem, 11, killed in a Hezbollah strike from Lebanon two days earlier, in the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan on July 29, 2024. (Jalaa Marey / AFP)
July 29, 2024, 1:15 pm
Daily Briefing Jul 29: Day 297 – Golan’s Druze demand reprisal for 12 killed by Hezbollah
Political reporter Tal Schneider on yesterday’s security cabinet meeting, hostage negotiations and Knesset’s recess; reporter Canaan Lidor reports from a mourning Majdal Shams
By ToI Staff
Gevara Ebraheem, 11, killed in a rocket strike from Lebanon on the Druze town of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on July 27 2024. (Courtesy)
July 29, 2024, 2:44 am
Boy thought missing identified as 12th victim in deadly Majdal Shams rocket attack
Authorities determine Gevara Ebraheem, 11, unheard from since attack, was killed by Hezbollah missile strike on soccer field in Golan Druze town a day earlier
By ToI Staff
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