(JNS.org) The Israel Police and the Shin Bet security agency believe that dozens more Israeli Arabs are planning to join the Islamic State terror group after leaving Israel for Turkey or Jordan.
Israeli authorities believe that at least 30 Israeli Arabs are already fighting for Islamic State, the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front, and other groups. Israeli Arabs aiming to join Islamic State are typically taken to Syria by a network of smugglers after arriving in the Turkish town of Antalya.
Authorities said three men in their 20s from the Lower Galilee town of Yafia left Israel for Turkey last week and joined Islamic State militias in Syria and Iraq. The men reportedly told their families that they were going to Turkey on vacation.
Separately, an Israeli Arab man from Qalansawe was imprisoned by Syrian intelligence after trying to infiltrate Syria to join rebels in the civil war there.