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Monday, November 6, 2023
Lapid joins call for government to alter nation-state law as Druze IDF soldiers among slain
Carrie Keller-Lynn is a former political and legal correspondent for The Times of Israel
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid says Israel needs to fix its controversial 2018 Basic Law: Nation-State of the Jewish People by legally enshrining equality for non-Jewish citizens.
In particular, Lapid says he is signing onto a call from the Druze community, which lost four members in battle since October 7, to make Israelis equal in life and in death.
“I’m not requesting you to cancel it, I’m not asking you to violate the promise that you gave yourselves to make Israel the nation-state of the Jewish people, but fix the law at this terrible moment as we are burying our dead alongside your dead,” Lapid says the Druze community’s leader implored him in a letter.
