Residents of six Druze villages in southern Syria held an emergency council meeting over the weekend in the wake of the fall of the Assad regime.

In a video of the meeting that circulated on social media, the head sheikh says that it is far better for them to be annexed to the Israeli Ramat Hagolan than to live under the rebels, and the audience yells their agreement.

Senior Druze officials are adamantly opposed to allowing the Islamist rebels, many of whom have extremist views against non-Muslims, to enter their villages.

 (YWN’s Jerusalem desk is keeping you updated after tzeis ha’Shabbos in Israel)