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

Jordan Allowing Golan Druze to Enter Kingdom Without Visas or Preconditions. By. Baruch Yedid / TPS - 5 Av 5783 – July 23, 2023. 0. Share on Facebook. Tweet on Twitter ...

When Israel annexed the Golan Heights in 1981, it offered all residents — almost all of them Druze — Israeli citizenship, but only a small minority followed through.

Most Druze there identify as Syrian and have rejected offers of Israeli citizenship. Alim Abdallah was killed in action on Israel's border with Lebanon. Courtesy Mona Abdallah Saad ...

A rocket struck a soccer field near the Lebanon border this weekend killing 12 children and wounding more. The community hit is Druze and, though Arab, can claim Israeli citizenship.

There are an estimated 700,000 Druze in Syria, making them the country's third-largest religious group; there are also around 230,000 in Lebanon and 25,000 in Jordan. Israel and the Palestinian ...

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.

Dozens of Syrian Druze clerics crossed the armistice line on the Golan Heights into Israel on Friday for their community's first pilgrimage to a revered shrine in decades.On board three buses escorted ...

Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, speaks at a Hudson Institute event in Washington, D.C., Jan. 8, 2025. The fall of Bashar Assad in Syria is opening new ...