IDF announces round of new appointments, including Druze officer
Another appointment announced on Monday was that of Col.Israel Shomer who will become the Nahal Brigade Commander three years after he shot and killed a Palestinian youth.
A member of the Druze community holds a Druze flag as he speaks to an Israeli soldier near the border fence between Syria and the Golan Heights, near Majdal Shams June 18, 2015. Gathered at a hilltop in the Golan Heights, a group of Druze sheikhs look through binoculars at the Syrian village of Hade(photo credit: BAZ RATNER/REUTERS)ByANNA AHRONHEIMUpdated: