Golan Heights Paraglider Incident Highlights New Dangers for Israel

The Arab Israeli who paraglided into Syria on Saturday may be another sign of changes in the balance of power along the Golan border – and elsewhere in Syria.

Oct 25, 2015 5:08 PM

The incident involving the Israeli who paraglided into Syria from the Golan Heights and put the entire Israeli military on alert on Saturday was later discovered to be much less worrying than first imagined....

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