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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 2r, meets with the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, Sheikh Muafak Tarif, 2l, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 27, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
August 2, 2018, 10:25 pm
PM walks out on Druze over criticism from leader who had warned of ‘apartheid’
Incensed over Facebook post from last month in which Amal As’ad said Israel was headed toward ‘apartheid,’ Netanyahu ends summit meant to solve nation-state law crisis
By TOI staff
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
Cardinal Rainer Woelki (C) leads a mass at the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fish in Tabgha, on February 12, 2017, upon its reopening following eight months of renovation. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)
February 12, 2017, 4:48 pm
Jesus ‘Loaves’ church reopens 20 months after arson attack
President Reuven Rivlin attends interfaith meeting at holy site; Israel contributed $400,000 toward repairs
By AFP and TOI staff
Pope Francis walks towards the main entrance with the lettering 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Sets You Free) at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Oswiecim, Poland on July 29, 2016 (AFP PHOTO/FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)
November 1, 2016, 8:43 pm
Israel’s non-Jewish religious leaders get history lesson in Poland
Greek Orthodox, Armenian and Anglican priests and Druze sheikh visit Warsaw, Krakow and Auschwitz
By JTA
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
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