Druze community in Israel welcomes 100 senior Druze leaders from Syria

Record ID: 1983738

  • Title: Druze community in Israel welcomes 100 senior Druze leaders from Syria
  • Date: 14th March 2025
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK (MARCH 13, 2025) (AGENCY POOL) (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHELSEA MANAGER ENZO MARESCA ON PLANS TO PLAY GOALKEEPER ROBERT SANCHEZ AGAINST ARSENAL, SAYING: "Yeah, it will be Robert (Sanchez) playing against Arsenal." REPORTER (NOT IN VISION) ASKING: "Do you expect any changes in the goalkeeper now in the Premier League?" MARESCA SAYING: "Since we started, the
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  • Keywords: Community Druze Israel Leaders Visit
  • Location: GOLAN HEIGHTS
  • City: GOLAN HEIGHTS
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: Middle East,Religion/Belief,Society/Social Issues
  • Reuters ID: LVA001879914032025RP1
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  • Story Text: VIDEO QUALITY AS INCOMING
    Buses carrying a delegation of Druze religious leaders from Syria arrived in Israel on Friday (March 14), for a first visit in five decades, despite escalating cross-border tensions.
    Around 100 Syrian Druze religious elders crossed into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in buses and headed to meet Israeli Druze leaders and community.
    The Druze, an Arab minority who practice a religion originally derived from Islam, live in Lebanon, Syria, Israel, and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, occupying a distinctive position in the region's mosaic of faiths and cultures.
    It was the first such visit to Israel in some 50 years, when a group came in the immediate aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur war between Israel, Syria, and Egypt.
    The head of the Druze community in Israel, Sheik Mowafaq Tarif, hailed the visit and called it "a historic, festive day".
    The religious elders, mostly from a string of Druze villages on the slope of Mount Hermon in Syria, are expected to visit shrines including sites held to be the tomb of prophet Shuayb, west of Tiberias, in the Lower Galilee.
    (Production: Avi Ohayon, Reim Nahaboo)
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