JERUSALEM POST, May 4, 2022: IDF's Lt.-Col. A.: The man flying high for Israel's Druze community

Seventy-five years ago, a Syrian Druze officer was one of the thousands of Syrian Arab Army forces that invaded the newly created State of Israel. But he then made a move that would affect not only him, but future generations of his family: He switched sides and soon became an officer in the Israel Defense Forces.

He raised his family on the ethos of serving and fighting for the country he once fought against – and now his grandson, Lt.-Col. “A.” (whose full name cannot be published) has risen to be one of the highest-ranking Druze in the IDF.

Photo: IDF Spokesman