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Gadeer Kamal Mreeh speaks in front of an Arab-Israeli crowd during an election campaign meeting in the northern Israeli city of Shfar'am on August 26, 2019 (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
September 10, 2019, 9:16 am
After breaking political glass ceiling, Druze woman aims for equality
Blue and White’s Gadeer Kamal Mreeh hopes to win reelection on September 17 with the blessing of the spiritual head of her community in Israel
By Alexandra Vardi
Illustrative photo of an El Al plane taking off from Ben Gurion Airport, August 5, 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
July 2, 2019, 3:24 am
El Al hires its first Druze flight attendant
Merach Kara says she wanted to work on planes since her first flight at age 4
By Marcy Oster
Wrapping grape leaves with Galileat, the Galilean cooking workshop experience that is embarking on a crowdsourcing-funded cookbook (Courtesy Galileat)
January 25, 2017, 7:11 pm
Out of the north, a crowdsourced cookbook rises
Food guide Paul Nirens sets out to publish ‘The Galilean Kitchen,’ bringing the region’s unique cooking to foodies worldwide
By Jessica Steinberg
Final rehearsal for the Israeli 65th Independence Day Ceremony, with the torches lit in the background, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 11, 2013. (photo credit:Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)
April 7, 2016, 1:02 am
Ilan Ramon’s widow to light Independence Day torch
Celebrating ‘civil heroism,’ the May ceremony will feature a deaf Holocaust survivor, Nepal aid worker, IDF soldiers and everyday heroes
By TOI staff
Druze horsewoman and trainer Rajaa Kheir battles to saddle a stray horse on September 17, 2015, at her ranch in the Druze town of Majdal Shams, in the southern foothills of Mount Hermon, north of the Golan Heights. (AFP/JALAA MAREY)
December 17, 2015, 12:13 pm
Lone Druze woman takes the reins to tame horses on the Golan
Raja Kheir, 32, has been riding since she was 6. She now has 15 horses at her school on the picturesque plateau
By Majeda El Batsh
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