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Wednesday, July 25, 2018
Bennett: Government must ‘heal wound’ caused to Druze by nation-state law
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEducation Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the right-wing Jewish Home party, says he now sees that the nation-state law passed last week by the Knesset has “deeply hurt” the Israeli Druze community, and insists the government must “find a way to heal this wound.”
In a Hebrew-language Twitter post, Bennett says:
“After discussions with many of our Druze brothers, it appears that the way the nation-state law was legislated deeply hurt the very people who have linked their fate to the Jewish state. This, of course, was not the intent of the government of Israel. These are our blood brothers, who stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us on the battlefield and have forged a life-covenant with us. It is our responsibility, as the government of Israel, to find a way to heal this wound.”
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