Druze individuals rarely marry outside their faith (often practicing consanguinity) and are thus believed to form a genetic isolate. To comprehensively characterize the genetic structure of the ...

In most parts of the world, local populations each have a limited variety of mitochondrial DNA. But among Israel’s Druze, who number 120,000, researchers found an unprecedented variety ...

The Druze established strongholds in the mountainous areas of the region that includes Lebanon and Syria, where they continued to practice their faith in relative isolation over the generations.

The course designed for grades 7-9, aims to help younger generations gain an understanding of Druze history, traditions, and partnership with Israel.

There are 25,000 Druze in the Golan Heights, divided into four villages, and until recently, they had remained on the sidelines of the conflict unfolding in Israel and Palestine. But who are the Druze ...

The course designed for grades 7-9, aims to help younger generations gain an understanding of Druze history, traditions, and partnership with Israel.

The Druze community in Syria numbers only around 700,000, out of a total population of some 21 million, and has a history of rebelling under authoritarian leaders, rising up during the rule of the ...

The Druze have a complex history in the region, and in Israel, their story is intertwined with the establishment of the state in 1948. In contrast to many Arab communities, the Druze leadership chose ...

The Arabic-speaking Druze community straddles the border between two countries—and, like Israel, fears Islamists.