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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 594

Muslims in Israel

Mourning their genocide, Israeli Circassians hold fast to multilayered identity
By Diana Bletter
Over 160 years after their people were expelled from the Caucasus, residents of Kfar Kama maintain their language and culture while embracing life as Israelis and Muslims
Circassians commemorate the Circassian Mourning Day in Kfar Kama on May 21, 2024. (Courtesy/Adam Choshha)
May 21, 2025, 10:51 am
Mourning their genocide, Israeli Circassians hold fast to multilayered identity
Over 160 years after their people were expelled from the Caucasus, residents of Kfar Kama maintain their language and culture while embracing life as Israelis and Muslims
By Diana Bletter
Dr. Fadi Badarna, right, a volunteer eye doctor with LeMa’anam (“for their sake” in Hebrew), a nonprofit organization providing free home healthcare to Holocaust survivors, and Aviv Paz, a LeMa'anam employee, look at the number tattoo that Chana Sandouvsky received in Auschwitz, in her home in Kiryat Bialik on April 16, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
April 24, 2025, 8:11 am
In shadow of Holocaust and war, Arab doctors find shared humanity in caring for survivors
Volunteering for nonprofit LeMa’anam, Christian Yosif Boulos and Muslim Fadi Badarna provide home visits for elderly who lived through horrors decades ago and in wake of October 7
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative. Students arrive at an Israeli high school, June 11, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90/ File)
September 23, 2024, 8:31 pm
Beersheba girl suspended from school after voicing concern for Gazan kids
Middle school, Education Ministry claim 13-year-old suspended for 3 days to protect her from harassment during probe into incident; girl says other students verbally abused her
By ToI Staff
From left to right: Kivunim flatmates Elad Kornhauser, Maya Ronen, Aya Jaber, and Maysoon Samaka. (Courtesy)
December 23, 2023, 1:56 pm
At group home in Nahariya, bond between Muslim and Jewish young adults survives Oct. 7
Aya Jaber, 22, feared being ostracized after the Hamas atrocities, but connection with her friends and flatmates in northern Israel, who also have disabilities, is unbroken by war
By Diana Bletter
Jamal Waraqi, an Arab Israeli volunteer for the ZAKA rescue service, November 13, 2023. (Channel 12 screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 13, 2023, 2:15 pm
Arab ZAKA worker: ‘I had no idea where to start’; Oct. 7 massacre an affront to Islam
Jamal Waraqi describes shock over scenes in southern communities, says he keeps thinking about things he may have missed; urges all religious groups ‘to do our part for the country’
By ToI Staff
Religious Jews standing atop tombs at the Bab al-Rahma cemetery in Jerusalem. (X screenshot)
October 4, 2023, 6:24 pm
Jordan slams vandalism of Muslim sites; US pans spitting on Christians in Jerusalem
Police chief Shabtai says ‘creative activities’ in the works to prevent rise in violence against non-Jewish worshipers in Old City
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
In this photo taken with low shutter speed, Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, July 6, 2022. (Amr Nabil/AP)
June 20, 2023, 8:01 pm
Flights between Israel and Saudi Arabia for Muslim pilgrims won’t be ready for Hajj
While US, Saudi and Israeli officials had been working to get line up by end of month, Hanegbi says they weren’t able to pull it off; reason not said to be political
By Jacob Magid
In this photo taken with low shutter speed, Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, July 6, 2022. (Amr Nabil/AP)
May 21, 2023, 11:54 pm
Israel reportedly in ‘advanced’ talks for direct flights to Hajj in Saudi Arabia
Several outlets claim breakthrough in talks for pilgrimage flights next month, which would ease burden for Muslims making trip; FM Cohen says normalization possible in 6 months
By ToI Staff
An illustrative photo of an El Al flight taking off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside Tel Aviv, October 25, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
July 14, 2022, 1:09 am
Report: Saudi Arabia to okay all overflights from Israel, and direct travel for hajj
Overflight approval would significantly shorten journeys to India, China and more; hajj okay would enable Israeli Muslim pilgrims to board direct flights from Tel Aviv to Mecca
By ToI Staff
Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai speaks during an event held at the National Police Academy in Bnei Brak, April 12, 2022. (Screen grab from video released by Israel Police)
April 12, 2022, 3:21 pm
Police chief: Odeh’s comments against Arab servicemen will only boost recruitment
Police force includes 1,232 Muslim officers; Shabtai says: ‘I won’t let anyone smear our Arab officers’
By Tobias Siegal
Men hold a sign bearing a picture of French President Emmanuel Macron with a Hitler mustache and a shoe print on it as Turkish protesters shout slogans during a demonstration against French President's comments over Prophet Muhammad cartoons, in Ankara, on October 27, 2020 (Adem ALTAN / AFP)
October 27, 2020, 6:10 pm
Tens of thousands march in Bangladesh as Muslim backlash against Macron widens
French leader depicted with Hitler mustache in Turkey as Muslims worldwide protest Paris’s defense of murdered teacher who showed drawing of Mohammed
By AFP and ToI Staff
Palestinian women prepare traditional cookies ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festivities, celebrating the end of the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on May 29, 2019. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)
May 23, 2020, 11:49 pm
Israeli leaders send holiday greetings to Muslims on eve of Eid al-Fitr
President lauds Arab and Muslim leadership in Israel for contributing to containment of virus, thereby helping safeguard all citizens; Gantz, Ashkenazi also send holiday wishes
By Jacob Magid
Twin brothers Fares (left) and Firas Muhammad, Muslim Arabs serving in the IDF's Golani Brigade (Channel 12 screenshot)
May 9, 2020, 3:19 pm
Arab Muslim twins go from violent delinquents to proud Golani soldiers
Fares and Firas Muhammad spent much of their youth in courts for thefts and thuggery; when they decided to turn their lives around, their path led them, extraordinarily, to the IDF
By ToI Staff
A 10th century Quran is seen on display at Israel's National Library Monday, June 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Caron Craighton)
June 11, 2018, 8:23 pm
Tiny ancient Quran on display in Israel for Ramadan
National Library seeks to give space to minority cultures in Israel, with exhibit of rare manuscripts during Muslim holy month
By CARON CREIGHTON
Arab Israelis march in the northern Arab town of Kabul, near Acre, during a demonstration against planned Israeli legislation to silence mosque loudspeakers, on March 11, 2017. The writing in Arabic reads: 'Our mosques won't be silenced.' (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
March 11, 2017, 8:47 pm
Thousands of Arab Israelis protest mosque loudspeaker bills
Demonstrators say proposal to muffle muezzins is a provocation to all Muslims
By AFP and ToI Staff
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