Most of the attention from the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas focuses on rockets fired from Gaza and the military response. On the ground, however, some fear a greater scourge taking place and that’s the growing violence between the nearly two million Arab living throughout Israel and Jewish Israelis throughout the country.
Israeli president has crisis confab with multifaith clergy
‘We cannot forget that we believe in the same God. All of us are children of Abraham. We must look, with all the problems, at the half-full cup,’ says Waqf official at Akko meeting.
President Reuven Rivlin with clergy in Akko, May 14, 2021. Photo by Mark Neyman/GPO
Amid spiraling violence throughout mixed Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in Israel, President Reuven Rivlin met with the local leadership from all sectors of society in Acre (Akko) on Friday, May 14.
At the meeting, led by Mayor Shimon Lankri, the clergy members made a joint call to end violence and calm the situation in this northern coast city.