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 ...

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.

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 ...

In the Golan Heights, most Druze have retained Syrian citizenship and publicly reject the Israeli occupation. The community as a whole often finds itself caught between conflicting national loyalties.

Druze who do not hold Israeli citizenship are not subject to mandatory service. At least 10 Druze officers and soldiers have been killed since Oct. 7, according Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, ...

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 ...

On July 25, 2018, ISIS-linked terrorists stormed the Druze-majority city of Suwayda, launching gunfights and suicide bombings that claimed the lives of at least 258 people, most of them civilians.

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 ...