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  • Connecting to the land, not the phone-A Day with Israeli-Druze youth

    Aquila Mendez Valdez|Jun 30, 2017

    Israel is home to approximately 140,000 members of the Druze faith, but today there's a dozen or so young students waiting patiently for me as I park my car next to the Shrine of the Prophet Bha'a Aldeen, a local Druze holy site. By this point, I have spent several months in Israel and have only heard whisperings about the Druze community. They remain something of a mystery to the outside world, with terms like "secret religion" and "hidden in plain sight" used at times to describe them. But...