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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
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
Mayor Wisam Nibwani of the northern Druze town of Julis. (YouTube screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
September 25, 2022, 2:05 pm
Shots fired at home of Druze mayor as land dispute turns ugly
Damage caused to Wisam Nibwani’s house in Julis but no injuries; police break up riots after attack as Druze leader urges calm
By Michael Horovitz
Bassam Kablan, 40, who was shot to death at his building supply store in the Druze town of Beit Jann in northern Israel on July 1, 2022. (Courtesy)
July 1, 2022, 5:51 pm
Brother of former Beit Jann mayor shot to death
Bassam Kablan killed at work in a building supplies store, making him the 48th Arab or Druze homicide victim this year; second person seriously injured
By ToI Staff
Police volunteer Hossam Zaghir is buried in the northern town of Yarka, September 22, 2021. (Fadi Amun/Courtesy)
September 22, 2021, 8:14 pm
‘One of the best:’ Police volunteer killed in Nahariya car-ramming buried
Officials mourn 32-year-old Hossam Zaghir in Yarka; commissioner vows to make assailant ‘pay a heavy price’
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Greek Orthodox patriarch Theophilos III (L), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau (2nd-L), then President-elect Reuven Rivlin (C), Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Muafek Tarif (2nd-R), and Union of Imams in Israel leader Sheikh Muhammad Kiwan, during a meeting of religious leaders at the offices of the Chief Rabbinate in Jerusalem, on July 9, 2014. (Flash90)
April 22, 2020, 11:50 am
Chief rabbis to join Christian, Muslim, Druze leaders in interfaith prayer
Religious figures to recite special prayer for victims of coronavirus pandemic and in light of rising anti-Semitism, racism across globe
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 2r, meets with the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, Sheikh Muafak Tarif, 2l, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 27, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
August 2, 2018, 10:25 pm
PM walks out on Druze over criticism from leader who had warned of ‘apartheid’
Incensed over Facebook post from last month in which Amal As’ad said Israel was headed toward ‘apartheid,’ Netanyahu ends summit meant to solve nation-state law crisis
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Druze regional council heads at his office in Jerusalem to discuss the nation-state law on July 29, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
August 1, 2018, 8:19 pm
Netanyahu team presents plan to mollify Druze over nation-state law
Offer includes advancing legislation anchoring minority’s status in law; community leaders say they will consider proposal
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) meets with Sheikh Muafak Tariff, spiritual leader of Israel's Druze community, Communications Minister Ayoub Kara (L) and other Druze leaders at his office in Jerusalem to discuss the nation-state law on July 27, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)
July 27, 2018, 2:55 pm
Netanyahu meets with Druze leaders but won’t commit to changing nation-state law
PM expresses ‘great appreciation the State of Israel has for unique partnership’ with the minority group, says he will continue consultations
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center-right) meets with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (center-left), Communications Minister Ayoub Kara (3rd-left), Tourism Minister Yariv Levin (2nd-left), Kulanu MK Akram Hasson (left), Yisrael Beytenu MK Hamad Amar (right), Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (2nd-right) and his chief of staff Yoav Horowitz (3rd-right) on July 26, 2018. (Haim Tzach/GPO)
July 26, 2018, 4:53 pm
Netanyahu seeks to mollify Druze MKs enraged by nation-state law
PM says plan to be drawn up expressing Israel’s ‘deep commitment’ to community but mum on whether legislation will be altered amid criticism
By Alexander Fulbright
Cardinal Rainer Woelki (C) leads a mass at the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish in Tabgha, on February 12, 2017, upon its reopening following eight months of renovation. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)
February 12, 2017, 4:48 pm
Jesus ‘Loaves’ church reopens 20 months after arson attack
President Reuven Rivlin attends interfaith meeting at holy site; Israel contributed $400,000 toward repairs
By AFP and ToI Staff
Pope Francis walks towards the main entrance with the lettering 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Sets You Free) at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Oswiecim, Poland on July 29, 2016 (AFP PHOTO/FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)
November 1, 2016, 8:43 pm
Israel’s non-Jewish religious leaders get history lesson in Poland
Greek Orthodox, Armenian and Anglican priests and Druze sheikh visit Warsaw, Krakow and Auschwitz
By JTA
IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot attends a State Control committee meeting at the Knesset on August 16, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 16, 2016, 6:36 pm
IDF chief to Druze leaders: Israel has no ties to extremist Syria rebels
Eisenkot meets with community leaders in wake of claims by Druze MK that army is backing Islamist groups
By ToI Staff
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