One of the last things Israel's Interior Minister Gideon Saar did before resigning from the Knesset was to recognize the Israeli Christians as members of the Aramean nation. The decision caused a ...

“In my view, we must cultivate and strengthen our community’s sense of collective identity not to seclude ourselves, but to fit in and take part in our societies,” says Khalloul, Aramean activist.

A first Israeli-Christian child registered as an Aramean on Monday, a month after the Interior Ministry announced it would recognize the national identity on legal documents. Yaakov Halul, 2, from ...

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Wonder Land: If you were an adversary looking at a U.S. uncertainty about its global leadership, what would you do? Answer: Up the ante—which is exactly what Iran, Russia and others are doing. Images: ...

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Israeli Christians will be able to legally define themselves on legal documents as Aramean following a decision by the Interior Ministry on Wednesday. The move is the culmination of a years-long ...

Sha'di Halul, head of the Aramaic Maronite Heritage Center, in Gush Halav in northern Israel, on August 9, 2013. Aramaic is now recognized as a nationality in Israel. Lost in the uproar over the ...

Israel’s Ministry of Interior signed an order recognizing some 200 Aramean Christian families as a separate nationality in the country’s population registry, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper reported on ...