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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 375

Akram Hasson

Then-education minister Naftali Bennett and then-justice minister Ayelet Shaked from the New Right party at an election campaign tour in central Jerusalem on January 23, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
April 12, 2019, 3:50 pm
Fired: Shaked, Bennett & the 30 other MKs forced to add ‘former’ to their titles
New Right co-leaders are joined by 9 from Likud, 11 from Labor and 10 other lawmakers who ran in the 2019 elections but failed to make it into 21st Knesset
By Jacob Magid
Israeli Druze religious leaders attend a Druze-led rally to protest against the 'Jewish Nation-State law' in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv on Aug. 04, 2018. (Gili Yaari /FLASH90)
August 8, 2018, 2:37 pm
Druze revolt: Why a tiny, loyal community is so infuriated by nation-state law
While the Druze have been heavily integrated into Israel’s security sector, their communities have not reaped the same benefits as neighboring Jewish towns, experts say
By Adam Rasgon
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
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on June 10, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 26, 2018, 1:17 pm
Finance minister says ‘hastily’ passed nation-state law is mistake, needs fixing
Moshe Kahlon is second cabinet minister to address the anger of the Druze minority, who feel legislation betrayed them despite their service to the state
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Sheikh Muwaffak Tarīf (2nd-Right), the spiritual leader of Israel's Druze community, in the village of Julis in northern Israel, on April 25, 2013 (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)
July 25, 2018, 10:39 pm
Amid Druze outcry, Netanyahu calls meeting to examine nation-state law
While agreeing to meet next week with members of the minority group, prime minister says he won’t consider changing legislation
By Raoul Wootliff
Education Minister Naftali Bennett leads a Jewish Home faction meeting at the Knesset on February 19, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 25, 2018, 4:47 pm
Bennett: Government must ‘heal wound’ caused to Druze by nation-state law
Jewish Home head says legislation ‘necessary and just’ but must be ‘fixed’ to limit damage done to Israel-supporting, army-serving minority group
By Raoul Wootliff
Communications Minister Ayoub Kara speaks at a press conference about the Communications Ministry's move to shut down the Jerusalem office of Al Jazeera on August 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 23, 2018, 7:12 am
Druze minister gets death threats over Jewish state law, amid community protest
Shin Bet considers increasing security detail of Likud minister after he receives online and physical harassment over his vote in favor of controversial legislation
By Raoul Wootliff
Kulanu parliament member Akram Hasson during his swearing-in as a member of the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 1, 2016. (Issac Harari/Flash90)
July 22, 2018, 3:36 pm
Druze MKs petition High Court against Jewish state law
Lawmakers from coalition and opposition say legislation is a ‘spit in the face’ to minority group that ‘gives of its blood and sons for the state’
By ToI Staff
Deputy Minister Michael Oren, third from left, with Arab dignitaries at an event marking Ramadan at the Knesset, June 12, 2018 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)
June 13, 2018, 12:50 am
Deputy minister hosts first-ever iftar dinner under PMO auspices
While Israel is a Jewish state, it ‘respects the traditions and the heritage of our region,’ Michael Oren tells his Muslim guests
By Raphael Ahren
Druze men in the Israeli Golan Heights congregate near the Syrian border, waving their community's flag, after they heard about a suicide bombing in the Syrian Druze village of Hadar, on November 3, 2017. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)
November 3, 2017, 6:50 pm
Israeli Druze lawmaker says 4 of the dead in Syria bombing are his kin
Dozens of Israeli Druze gather at border after attack on Syrian Druze village, try to enter Syria to help their brethren
By ToI Staff
US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks as he debates with Democratic presidential candidates former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during their MSNBC Democratic Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire on February 4, 2016 in Durham, New Hampshire. ( Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)
February 26, 2017, 1:01 am
6 members of Congress, 4 MKs, 1 Palestinian negotiator, no top Republicans at J Street confab
Liberal group’s first conference of Trump era features Bernie Sanders, Saeb Erekat, Joint (Arab) List leader MK Ayman Odeh
By Eric Cortellessa
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
Kulanu parliament member Akram Hasson during his swearing-in as a member of the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 1, 2016. (Issac Harari/Flash90)
September 12, 2016, 7:22 pm
Druze MK accuses Liberman of backing al-Qaeda offshoot in Syria
Coalition lawmaker Akram Hasson says defense minister providing aid to Islamist militants
By Dov Lieber
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