President Reuven Rivlin speats at an education conference in Kiryat Ono on August 22, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)
President Reuven Rivlin spoke by telephone Thursday with Palestinian Authority PresidentMahmoud Abbas ahead of the the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Rivlin told the Palestinian leader he hopes the coming weeks will bring calm and quiet for both the Israeli and the Palestinian people, a spokesperson for the president said.
The spokesperson noted that the two men speak to each other “from time to time.”
“President Abbas expressed his hopes the Palestinian and Israeli peoples will enjoy security and stability,” the Wafa news agency reported.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah, July 25, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)
In June 2016 EU officials asked if Rivlin was willing to meet with Abbas while both men were in Brussels. Although Rivlin agreed, Abbas did not and the proposed meeting never came about.
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The Jewish and Muslim calendars, both of which are based on lunar cycles, will see the two faiths both celebrating major holidays within the space of few weeks.
Eid al-Adha will begin this year Thursday evening, as declared by Saudi Arabia’s High Judicial Court which confirmed the date for the festival after the new moon was sighted earlier in this month. It
The two-day Jewish new year holiday of Rosh Hashanah begins on the night of September 20 and is followed ten days later by Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement. The week-long Sukkot holiday begins on the night of October 4.
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