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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 641

Peki'in

A man fires a weapon in the air ahead of the arrival of Syrian Druze clerics at the tomb of Nabi Shuaib in northern Israel on March 14, 2025. There is no suggestion the man depicted caused the injury of a woman (John Wessels / AFP)
March 15, 2025, 11:44 am
Woman lightly hurt by celebratory gunfire as Syrian Druze visit nearby tomb in Israel
Incident condemned by Druze leadership: ‘Whoever shoots is not one of us’; local residents say police stood by and didn’t take action
By ToI Staff and AFP
Ossuary in Peki'in cave (Mariana Salzberger, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)
August 20, 2018, 2:48 pm
Anomalous blue-eyed people came to Israel 6,500 years ago from Iran, DNA shows
Study of bones from massive Galilee necropolis helps fill 3,000-year gap in knowledge of ancient Levant settlers
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Druze men from the Golan Heights in traditional garb (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)
April 24, 2018, 10:01 am
Israel’s Druze honor the prophet Jethro in annual pilgrimage to ancient tomb
Holiday gives visitors a glimpse of secretive religion, and community’s ‘living bond’ with Israeli Jews
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Margalit Zinati, sole Jewish resident of the Druze village of Peki'in in the Galilee, with an 1,800-year-old limestone capital bearing two Hebrew inscriptions found there in February 2017. (Ritvo courtesy of Beit Zinati)
February 21, 2017, 4:52 pm
Hebrew carvings on column lend weight to Galilee village’s Jewish past
IAA says discovery of 1,800-year-old limestone capital bearing inscriptions reinforces association of Druze village of Peki’in with Roman-era center of Jewish scholarship
By Ilan Ben Zion
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