Career
Makhous died in 2013, at the age of 88. His father was a religious shaykh who also worked as a landless cultivator, although he eventually came to own 100 dunams of agricultural land. He served as the arbiter of local disputes and founded a massive charitable organization in the Syrian coastal region called "al-Jam"iyyah al-Khayriyyah".
lieutenant grew to set up a presence in some seventy villages and established one of the first co-ed secondary school in the area.
From a young age, Ibrahim worked with his father"s association, traveling frequently throughout Latakia"s hinterland where he became intimately aware of the peasantry"s hardships. While a student, he fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War as a volunteer for the Arab forces.
During the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954, he served as a volunteer physician.