Israel's Druze Community

Inside Druze TEC, the new empowerment center reshaping Israel’s tech workforce

Druze TEC studies are open to both men and women of the Druze community after they complete their IDF and National Service obligations.

DRUZE RESIDENTS hand out food to Israeli soldiers guarding a road near the Lebanon border, October 9, 2023.
Dr. Amir Khnifess set up a tent in front of the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem.

Chairman of Israeli-Druze center sets up protest tent outside PM's office

The damaged border fence in Majdal Shams several days after Israeli Druze breached it to reunite with family members in Syria, July 2025.

In Druze town where hundreds breached border with Syria, residents mourn one tragedy, fear another

 People carry a person, injured in recent clashes in Syria's Sweida province, as casualties receive treatment at a field medical point, following renewed fighting between Bedouin fighters and Druze gunmen, despite an announced truce, in Deraa, Syria July 18, 2025

'For our brothers': Israel's Druze rush to donate blood to Syrian relatives after clashes in Sweida


IDF, Border Police disperse Israeli-Druze crowds along Syrian border, returns them to Israel

The illegal crossings came around the announcement by US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack that Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire supported by Turkey, Jordan, and regional partners.

 IDF soldiers operate on Mount Hermon, on the border between Israel and Syria, December 12, 2024

Israel's first test as a regional superpower: Defending Druze in Syria's Sweida - opinion

What we are witnessing may be the first chapter of a Pax Israeliana - a regional order not imposed by conquest, but secured by principled strength.

 SMOKE RISES as Syrian troops enter the predominantly Druze city of Sweida on Tuesday. The Druze community in Syria is not only a historical ally of Israel, but it also sits on the front line between order and tribal disintegration, states the writer

UN pushes for Syrian gov't to end violence against Druze in Sweida

In his statement, Turk condemned the mass displacement and acts of violence in Sweida, including reports of killings, kidnappings, destruction of private property, and looting of homes.

UNITED NATIONS High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk holds a news conference in Damascus, in January. The UN would have condemned Moses and Aaron as war criminals, says the writer.

Sa'ar greenlights aid to Syrian Druze as Shara'a's forces redeploy to Sweida

Yesterday, Israel announced that a ceasefire had been reached in the area, and that the Syrian forces were expected to withdraw from areas with Druze populations.

 Syrian security forces walk together along a street, after clashes between Syrian government troops and local Druze fighters resumed in the southern Druze city of Sweida early on Wednesday, July 16, 2025.

Western diplomats were within meters of Israeli strikes in Damascus, sources say

No one in the convoy was injured, and it continued on its way, the people said, declining to give further details on the nationalities or number of those involved.

 Smoke rises after strikes on Syria's defense ministry in Damascus, according to Al Jazeera TV, in Damascus, Syria July 16, 2025.

'We’ve seen this movie with Hamas': Druze Spiritual leader speaks out after violence in Syria

The Israeli Druze leader added that he believed that thousands of people were injured, and that hundreds are dead.

 Druze residents protest near the Israeli-Syrian border fence in solidarity with their community in Syria, July 16, 2025.

Can Israel trust Syria's leadership? The Druze crisis puts emerging ties to the test - analysis

While the Syrian Druze community might not stand with Israel, experts say that Jerusalem has an obligation to protect them against malevolent forces from within President Ahmed Al-Sharaa's camp.

 People gather, near the ceasefire line between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Syria, amid the ongoing conflict in the Druze areas in Syria, in Majdal Shams, July 16, 2025

Israel's Druze have sacrificed so much, and their families in Syria deserve safety - editorial

The Israeli Druze have given everything for Israel, even when they didn't have to, and now they deserve Israel's helping hand in their time of need.

A Druze boy holds a flag as he looks at the ceasefire line between Golan Heights and Syria, on the day of first visit by Druze delegation from Syria just after 1973 war in Israel, March 14, 2025.

Rubio: US has engaged with all parties in Syria clashes, agreed on steps to end situation

Rubio said that steps must be taken by "all parties to deliver on commitments they have made and this is what we fully expect them to do."

 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio takes part in a media briefing during the 58th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' meeting and related meetings at the Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 10, 2025.

IDF attempts to curb Syrian infiltrations into Israel, return Israelis crossing into Syria

The IDF emphasized that Israel citizens crossing into Syria is a criminal offense that endangers both the public and the IDF.

 Israeli Druze gather at the Syrian border in Golan Heights, July 16 2025

Israel's Druze community declares day of rage, prepares to invade Syria if necessary

"Silence and standing idly by are no longer an option,” Druze leader Sheikh Mowafak Tarif wrote.

 Israeli Druze demonstrating against Islamist violence in Syria, April 30, 2025.