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Like father, like son

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After seven months fighting Hamas terrorists in Gaza with his elite military reserve unit, 32-year-old Eyal Ghanam is now heading to the country’s volatile northern border for a two-month stint. For Ghanam, a member of...

Israel’s heroes will ensure victory

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In a recent column about the Middle East Forum’s fact-finding mission to Israel in which I participated, I discussed the uniform consensus among Israelis that they must completely and decisively win the war against Hamas for...
Basma Hino, who made her restaurant in the Western Galilee village of Julis kosher so all Jewish soldiers could eat her donated meals. Credit: TPS.

Druze restaurant goes kosher to unite with soldiers

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The aroma of spices and the rattling of pans filled the kitchen of the Noor restaurant. The restaurant was made kosher in an act of solidarity with soldiers passing through the Galilee Druze village...
Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu arrives for a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Jan. 29, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israeli minister visits Druze security guard who was attacked at Mount Meron

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Israel’s Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu on Tuesday visited the Israeli Druze security guard whose vicious beating by Jewish youth at Mount Meron on the Saturday before Lag B’Omer was caught on security cameras. “I came on behalf of the...
Graffiti in Daliat el-Carmel. Photo by Diana Bletter.

A taste of Druze culture and cuisine in Daliat el-Carmel

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The aroma of cardamom coffee wafts out of a spice shop. Teenage girls are walking home from school, some in jeans and Blundstone boots, others wearing traditional veils and skirts. A cell phone store...
A group of students from the Derech Avot High School of Ohr Torah Stone educational network in Efrat visited the home of a Druze police officer, 19-year-old Yazan Falah, who was killed in a terror attack in Hadera on March 27, 2022. Credit: Courtesy of Ohr Torah Stone.

Efrat high school makes pointed stop to visit family of murdered Druze officer

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A group of students from the Derech Avot High School of Ohr Torah Stone educational network in Efrat decided to deviate from their previously scheduled itinerary on a yearly outing to make a condolence...
Karawan Halabi. Credit: Israeli Athletic Association.

Israeli woman becomes first Druze athlete to set national track record

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Karawan Halabi, 27, on Tuesday became the first Druze athlete to set an Israeli track and field record, finishing the 1,000-meter race in 2:43:99 minutes. The previous record belonged to Edna Lankri, whose time of...
Sahar Ismail, Arab society adviser to Israel's education minister, was shot dead in his car in the Arab Israeli town of Rameh on Aug. 15, 2021. Source: Telegram.

Israeli education minister’s Arab affairs adviser shot dead in car

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Israeli Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton’s Arab affairs adviser was gunned down in his car on Sunday outside his home in the Galilee village of Rameh. Sahar Ismail, 50, a member of the Druze community, also...
Israeli Air Force Col. Awad Suleiman (right) took command of Air Maintenance Unit 22, becoming the first Druze colonel to do so, in a ceremony on Aug. 11, 2021. Credit: IAF.

First Druze colonel in Israeli Air Force takes command of maintenance unit

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The Israeli Air Force held a historic changing-of-the-guard ceremony on Wednesday at Tel Nof Airbase, south of Tel Aviv, when the first Druze colonel took command of Air Maintenance Unit 22. Col. Awad Suleiman replaced...
Incoming Jewish Agency shlicha and former Knesset member Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh with chairman of the Jewish Agency and Israel’s President-elect Isaac Herzog. Credit: David Salem, Zug Productions.

Former Druze MK appointed emissary to Washington, North American campuses

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The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington will be bringing former Knesset member Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh—the first female Druze member of Israel’s legislature, to Washington, D.C.—as a senior shlicha (Israeli emissary). She will...