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Newly-elected Lebanese member of parliament Taymour Jumblatt, son of Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and grandson of Kamal Jumblatt, arrives to attend the first session of the newly-elected assembly at its headquarters in the capital Beirut on May 31, 2022. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
June 25, 2023, 10:33 pm
Lebanon’s main Druze party names new leader, son of longtime party chief
Sole contender Taymour Jumblatt, 41, to succeed father Walid Jumblatt, who headed Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) party for 45 years
By AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Moafaq Tarif in his office in Jerusalem on June 21, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)
June 25, 2023, 5:58 am
Netanyahu announces brief pause to wind turbine construction in Golan Heights
PM says project on hold until after Eid al-Adha holiday on Wednesday; follows Druze leader’s warning against a community reaction that ‘the country has hitherto not seen’
By ToI Staff
File: Muafaq Tarif, head of the Druze community in Israel, at a ceremony held at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 24, 2023, 5:50 pm
Druze leader: Golan wind turbine project must stop or face unprecedented response
Muafak Tarif speaks at emergency meeting over controversial project that has enraged Druze living on the plateau
By ToI Staff
Public Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (center-right) meets with Druze spiritual leader Mowafaq Tarif and members of a Druze community council, June 22, 2023 (Twitter screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 22, 2023, 11:35 pm
After Druze riots, Ben Gvir says wind farm construction will pause for holiday
National security minister, who took hardline approach to protests, confirms project will halt for Eid al-Adha next week in a message delivered alongside Druze leadership
By ToI Staff
Druze community members protest against the construction of a new wind farm in the Golan Heights, June 21, 2023 (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
June 22, 2023, 2:58 pm
Ben Gvir overrules police on freezing wind farm project, despite riots – reports
Far-right minister vows work will continue despite two days of protests, violence; police chief reportedly wanted contentious work paused until after next week’s Eid al-Adha
By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner
Settlement leadership at Evyatar illegal West Bank outpost, June 21, 2023. From left: bereaved father Elisha Guetta, Samaria Council Municipal Chief Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan and Tsofia Borovsky, after whose murdered husband Evyatar the settlement is named. (Courtesy Nachala Settlement Movement)
June 22, 2023, 12:56 pm
Daily Briefing June 22: Settlers retake Evyatar as Eli is promised 1,000 more homes
Jeremy Sharon reports on settler rampages after Tuesday’s deadly terror attack, possible government nod to outpost land grab; Sue Surkes on Druze riots over Golan wind turbine farm
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu making a video statement about violent rioting in the West Bank and on the Golan Heights, June 21, 2023. (GPO)
June 21, 2023, 8:24 pm
‘Obey the law’: Netanyahu condemns Druze riots in Golan, West Bank settler rampages
In video statement, prime minister criticizes incidents of unrest, says rioting is unacceptable
By ToI Staff
Tear gas fumes fill the air as members of the Druze community gather with their flags in a protest against an Israeli wind turbine project near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on June 21, 2023. (Photo by JALAA MAREY / AFP)
June 21, 2023, 3:59 pm
4 Druze seriously injured, 12 cops hurt in massive riots against Golan wind farm
Official warns of ‘intifada’ amid anger at project near farmland; police stress program is legal; protesters said to use live fire, firebombs to try and overrun police position
By Michael Bachner
Jewish worshipers attack a Druze guard at the Meron shrine in northern Israel on May 6, 2023. (Screencapture/Twitter used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 8, 2023, 7:40 pm
Visitors to Jewish shrine filmed brutally beating Druze guard heard speaking Arabic
Police arrest two suspects, are expected to bring in more from Mount Meron assault; victim: ‘I shouted to them that I’m Druze, hoping they might stop beating me, but they didn’t’
By ToI Staff
A woman watches anti-overhaul protesters in Or Akiva, Israel on March 26, 2023. (Canaan Lidor)
March 26, 2023, 10:34 pm
In Or Akiva, social strife driving overhaul conflict rises to the surface
The impoverished and largely Sephardic town, eclipsed by its wealthy neighbor Caesarea, has become a flashpoint for violence by right-wing demonstrators
By Canaan Lidor
A Palestinian man after he was briefly taken by masked men in the northern Druze city of Yarka, November 24, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 2, 2023, 2:21 pm
5 Druze charged with kidnapping Palestinians in revenge for teen’s body-snatching
Masked gunmen forced laborers into car in Druze city of Yarka and beat them, before Tiran Fero’s remains were returned by terrorists in Jenin
By Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers operate in the West Bank, August 24, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 29, 2022, 6:43 pm
Druze IDF troops charged with hurling explosive at West Bank home in revenge attack
Soldiers stationed in Bethlehem area allegedly targeted random Palestinian after teenage Druze car crash victim Tiran Fero was seized by gunmen in Jenin a week earlier
By Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative: Israeli security forces in Kfar Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Nablus, October 7, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
November 28, 2022, 12:49 pm
Druze IDF troops held for allegedly throwing IED at West Bank home in revenge attack
3 soldiers arrested over incident thought linked to snatching of body of teenage Druze car crash victim Tiran Fero by Palestinian gunmen; no injuries or damage reported
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
A Palestinian delegation visits the bereaved family of Israeli Druze Tiran Fero, whose body was snatched by Palestinian gunmen from a hospital in the West Bank, November 26, 2022. (Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 26, 2022, 11:09 pm
Palestinian delegation visits family of Druze teen whose body was abducted by gunmen
The kidnapping of Tiran Fero’s body after West Bank car crash infuriated the Druze community in Israel
By ToI Staff
Family and friends mourn during the funeral procession of Tiran Fero, in Daliyat al-Karmel, northern Israel, November 24, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)
November 24, 2022, 11:33 pm
Diplomatic push and IDF threats said behind return of body seized by Palestinians
Reports say UN and US officials interceded with Islamic Jihad and PA, while Israeli military had prepared a wide-scale operation to bring home remains of teen Tiran Fero
By ToI Staff
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