Approximately 60,000 tourists visit the Druze village Peki'in each year. It is also where the sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai hid from the Romans in the 2nd century.

In a raw and personal journey across the Israel National Trail, Mansur Ashkar—an ex-IDF special forces officer—discovers the soul of Israel through breathtaking landscapes, biblical history, and the unexpected, unconditional hospitality of Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Bedouins.

Druze community leaders in southern Syria spoke in favor of being annexed to Israel’s Golan Heights, amid fears of retribution by Sunni Islamist rebels.