IDF intelligence chief Major-General Shlomi Binder met with the head of the Druze community in Israel, Shaykh Mowafaq Tarif, amid the toppling of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's regime, the ...
An estimated 700,000-800,000 Druze live in Syria, mostly in southwestern areas near Israel and Jordan. They make up around four percent of the Syrian population.
Israel, which shares a complicated relationship with the Druze in the Golan Heights, has stepped up efforts to engage with Syrian Druze communities amid the upheaval. Israeli security officials have ...