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Statue of Sultan Al-Atrash, a Druze icon and national hero, who led a revolt against French colonial rule in the village of Swuedia in southern Syria in 1925.
February 7, 2025, 10:06 am
SPECIAL REPORT: In identity-torn Golan Heights, Druze dream of peace with Syria
Jotam Confino discovers that the feeling of Syrian patriotism has been revived after the toppling of Bashar Al-Assad and the hope of a unified country
By Jotam Confino in the Golan Heights
Abu Mohammed al-Jolani
December 17, 2024, 10:22 am
New Syrian leader says country won’t be a launchpad for attacks on Israel
Abu Mohammed al-Jolani also called for Israel to cease airstrikes
By Lee Harpin
Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue, Jobar, Damascus,
December 16, 2024, 1:14 pm
EXCLUSIVE: Syrian sefer Torah to be returned to synagogue
High-level delegation of Syrian Jewish leaders and chief rabbi to visit Damascus after fall of Assad
By Jenni Frazer
Now deposed Syria President Bashar Assad, right, meets George Galloway in Damascus in 2005. Galloway was in Syria at the invitation of Parliament speaker Mahmoufd Abrash to deliver a lecture on "Justice in the new world order". (AP Photo Sana)
December 12, 2024, 9:20 am
OPINION: Wicked and malicious Galloway may be, but I never had him down as nuts
...Until last weekend when he appeared to have gone full-tonto into looney 9/11 'troofer' land
By John Ware
Jeremy Corbyn
December 9, 2024, 6:48 pm
Corbyn fails to directly condemn tyrant Assad as he criticises Israel in the Commons
Former Labour leader has repeatedly faced allegations of being an Assad apologist over many years
By Lee Harpin
People attend a rally celebrating the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government, in the town of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
December 9, 2024, 4:59 pm
OPINION: Assad’s fall is a blow to Russian and Iranian autocracy
End of decades of terror marks a turning point for Syria, as its allies reel from humiliating setbacks in their quest for dominance
By Jeremy Havardi
People attend a rally celebrating the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government, in the town of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
December 8, 2024, 3:57 pm
OPINION: Golan Heights back in the crosshairs as Assad finally falls
With Bashar al-Assad's fall, Israel eyes diplomacy and defence to secure its borders and reshape regional dynamics
By David Patrikarakos
A view of a ripped Israeli flag following the deadly attack by Islamist Hamas militants on Kibbutz Nir Oz, Oct. 19, 2023. (Ilia Yefimovich/picture alliance via Getty Images)
July 2, 2024, 9:26 am
ADL joins with legal powerhouse to seek compensation for U.S. victims of Oct. 7 massacres
The plaintiffs seek compensation under a 2015 law that is meant to compensate victims of state-sponsored terrorism through criminal penalties and seized assets.
By Ron Kampeas (JTA)
Hezbollah members. Credit: Stephen Gerard Kelly/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News
June 28, 2023, 11:04 am
Israel reveals ‘money laundering network’ sending digital currency to Iran
Defence Minister Gallant described the Israeli operation as a first of its kind, setting a precedent in "exposing the source of terror-funding via digital currencies."
By Jotam Confino
A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover. (PA)
March 22, 2023, 12:30 pm
OPINION: Overpaid pundit Lineker has debased vital debate
His sympathy for asylum seekers is to be admired. But Gary Lineker's ignorance in comparing events in the UK to 1930s Germany was unconscionable, writes Alex Brummer
By Alex Brummer
An Israeli F-15 fighter jet takes off during an exercise dubbed " Juniper Falcon", held between crews from the U.S and Israeli air forces, at Ovda Military Airbase, in southern Israel May 16. Picture taken May 16, 2017. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
March 6, 2023, 12:17 pm
Pilots in Israeli Air Force reserve make U-turn after announcing refusal to serve
69th Squadron is considered one of the most elite units in the Israeli army, taking part in the 2007 Israeli bombing of Syria's nuclear reactor.
By Jotam Confino in Israel
World Jewish Relief Annual Dinner 2023, Round House, Camden
February 22, 2023, 11:31 am
Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel take podcast double act to World Jewish Relief annual dinner
King Charles sends message to charity, praising the "tremendous example" its set "over the last 90 years” as guests celebrate milestone anniversary of humanitarian agency
By Michelle Rosenberg
United-Hatzalah-and-IDF-teams-preparing-medical-equipment-before-going-into-a-collapsed-building-in-Kahramanmaras-to-treat-a-survivor-on-Thursday. Credit: United Hatzalah
February 10, 2023, 12:25 pm
Israeli Chief Rabbi issues Shabbat dispensation for earthquake search and rescue
Rabbi Lau gives special ruling permitting IDF and United Hatzalah operations to continue in Turkey as the appalling death toll goes beyond 20,000.
By Michelle Rosenberg
Yavneh College
February 9, 2023, 11:34 am
Yavneh College raises funds for earthquake victims
Jewish school in Borehamwood fundraises as part of widespread community efforts following the disaster in Turkey and Syria
By Michelle Rosenberg
Kilis community centre, Turkey. Pic: WJR
February 8, 2023, 12:32 pm
Jewish aid organisations spearhead UK earthquake relief efforts in Turkey
World Jewish Relief and Magen David Adom at the forefront of Jewish community response to humanitarian crisis in Turkey and Syria
By Michelle Rosenberg
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