Israel is a regional superpower, and it should act accordingly,’ says Hazem Alghabra, Syrian-born former senior advisor to the US State Department, who visited Israel for the first time this week.

A member of the new security forces shakes hands with a boy during an operation to detain ... of the ousted president Bashar Assad in Homs, Syria, Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) ...

Hazem Alghabra’s childhood, a former senior adviser to the US State Department, was far from typical for a young Syrian boy. Born in the early 1980s to an educated, urban, and relatively secular ...