Forget the Syrians. I wonder how many in the increasingly secular and atheistic Israeli society will know about this detail....
Israeli society is decreasingly secular/atheistic, because, in part, secular/atheistic people don't reproduce.
There are many secular Israelis, especially in Tel Aviv...
but at same time, there are more and more faithful Isarelis (mostly because they have families and children while many secular people don’t)
Usually, not always of course, it is the secular ones that we read about (if only because of the leftist media centered in Tel Aviv, and of course the commie-leftist media in USA doesn’t care much for news about religious people and their achievements.. they’d rather run nice glossy articles about homosexual parades, seditionist successes, and how wonderful abortions are). So we tend to get pretty slanted news, with any coverage of religious people usually limited to those articles that can make them appear stupid or ‘narrow-minded’
Rest assured, tho, that the faithful population is growing quite nicely