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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 623

Majdal Shams

'Speeches Against Despair' will be performed at the Israel Festival on July 3, 2025 with actor Guri Alfi and Eli Haviv, actress Noa Koler, musician Noga Erez, actor Norman Issa, actress Maya Landsmann and others (Credit: Shir Greenblatt)
June 7, 2025, 5:32 am
Reflecting the times, Israel Festival to be held in north and south, as well as Jerusalem
64th edition of annual cultural event focuses on performances that reflect the ongoing war; no visiting performers in festival that used to host international participants
By Jessica Steinberg
Druze clerics greet each other as they await visiting counterparts from Syria in a bus through a border barrier guarded by Israeli soldiers, near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, on April 25, 2025. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
May 14, 2025, 12:36 pm
‘Maybe God put Druze in Israel to save the Druze there’: Minority fights for Syrian cousins
For the 150,000-strong member Druze community, attacks against their brethren across the border cause concern and a commitment to strengthen their rights as Israeli citizens
By Diana Bletter
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)
December 11, 2024, 1:37 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 11: Day 432 – ToI reports from a Druze village on Syria’s border
Reporter Diana Bletter on the complicated identities of Israeli-born Druze as they hope to see loved ones in Syria soon; legal reporter Jeremy Sharon on the PM’s first day at court
By Amanda Borschel-Dan, Jeremy Sharon and Diana Bletter
A boy rides past the border fence between Syria and Israel at Majdal Shams on December 9, 2024. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
December 11, 2024, 10:08 am
On Syrian border in war-struck Majdal Shams, Assad’s fall sparks hope for Israel’s Druze
While some Golan Heights residents dream of seeing their relatives in Syria again, others express ‘complicated’ emotions, reconsidering their identity and where they belong
By Diana Bletter
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
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
Rescue personnel evacuate an Israeli man who was seriously injured when a Hezbollah anti-tank missile hit Kfar Yuval in the Upper Galilee, September 1, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flahs90)
September 2, 2024, 3:59 am
Three wounded by Hezbollah anti-tank missile; 30 rockets fired at north on Sunday
IDF strikes targets in Lebanon; Defense Minister Gallant vows the north’s suffering ‘won’t be in vain’ as he visits Majdal Shams, where Hezbollah rocket killed 12 children in July
By Emanuel Fabian
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
The Washington Post front page on July 29, 2024. (Courtesy)
July 30, 2024, 11:39 pm
Washington Post admits front page on Majdal Shams attack lacked ‘adequate context’
Newspaper issues editor’s note acknowledging criticism of cover juxtaposing image of mourning Druze family members with headline on Israeli strikes on Lebanon
By ToI Staff
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
People gather near a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, July 30, 2024.; inset: Top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in an undated photo (AP Photo/Hussein Malla; Hezbollah media office)
July 30, 2024, 9:58 pm
IDF kills top Hezbollah commander in Beirut in response to deadly Majdal Shams attack
Fuad Shukr considered by Israel to be terror group’s most senior military officer, ‘right-hand man’ to chief Hassan Nasrallah, was also wanted by US for role in 1983 barracks bombing
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
The scene of a Hezbollah rocket impact in Kibbutz HaGoshrim on July 30, 2024. (Courtesy/used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law); Inset: Nir Popko, 28, who was killed in the attack. (X; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 30, 2024, 5:13 pm
Civilian killed by Hezbollah rocket as Israeli reprisal to Majdal Shams attack looms
Missile strikes kibbutz in Upper Galilee; airlines continue to suspend flights to Beirut amid fears of escalation; IDF strikes 7 Hezbollah sites in 7 areas in Lebanon overnight
By Emanuel Fabian, Reuters and ToI Staff
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
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