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Fast Forward Knesset Bill Funds Druze and Circassian Communities
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will submit a plan to the Knesset for significant investments in the Arab Druze and Muslim Circassian communities. The plan will include funds for education, infrastructure, and employment “in order to reduce the existing disparities,” Netanyahu announced Saturday night on his Facebook page, an on Sunday in an official announcement…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Holds Emotional Meeting With Druze Leaders
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Druze community leaders and expressed condolences on the recent deaths of two Druze police officers. Netanyahu on Wednesday evening offered his condolences on the deaths of Police Master Sergeant Zidan Saif, who was killed in the terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue, and of Border Police Chief Inspector…
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Fast Forward Slain Druze Police Officer Mourned by Thousands
Thousands of mourners, including busloads of haredi Orthodox Jews, attended the funeral of the Druze police officer killed in the terror attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem. The funeral Wednesday afternoon for Zidan Saif, 30, came hours after morning prayer services were held in the Har Nof synagogue where Palestinian terrorists killed five worshipers the…
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Fast Forward Druze Leader Ask Israel To Grant Asylum to 20 Syrian Families
Druze leaders living on the Israeli Golan Heights asked Israel’s prime minister to allow some Druze in Syria to enter Israel. Sources told the Times of Israel that the request to Benjamin Netanyahu, made in a letter last week, covers about 20 families. The letter was given to the director-general of the Prime Minister’s Office,…
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Opinion Druze Soldier’s Body Found After 7 Years
A few days before the anniversary of Gilad Shalit’s return home from captivity in Gaza, the story of another missing Israeli soldier has come to an altogether more tragic end. Majdy Halabi, an ethnic Druze, disappeared in May 2005 near his home in northern Israel. Today, in a brief statement, the Israeli military said that…
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Life Sister of Druze Miss Israel Contestant is Murdered
The most famous Miss Israel contestant not to win the national pageant has returned to the headlines in Israel. Duah Fares, a Druze Israeli who made waves before withdrawing from the 2007 Miss Israel pageant, is back in the news after the murder of her younger sister, Maya. Jamila Fares, a 21-year-old who went by…
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The Schmooze The Druze Who Can’t Come Back
Crossposted from Haaretz The documentary “Shout,” screened at the Haifa International Film Festival, outlines the dilemmas facing young Druze from the Golan Heights who leave to study in Damascus and cannot return. Minarets slice the skyline and gray residential buildings stand among them. Uniformed police pass through the streets scrutinizing passersby. Two young men in…
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The Schmooze University of Haifa Awards Honorary Doctorate to Druze Spiritual Leader
The name Shaykh Mowafak Tarif probably doesn’t mean much to you. But among Israel’s Druze minority, everybody has heard of him — he is the community’s spiritual leader. Today he will receive an honorary doctorate at the University of Haifa. There is much excitement about the award in the Druze community, where it is seen…
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