(RNS) For many Druze, an Arabic-speaking minority in Israel, the bill was seen as an insult and ignorant of the role the Druze have played in Israel’s military history.
Israeli media reported that Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu are expected to travel to the resort town of Ramot in the southern Golan later this week.
The Orthodox Western Wall Heritage Foundation Refused to Allow the Ceremony, Marking 56 Years Since the Conquest of the Old City, to Be Held at the Main Prayer Plaza on the Grounds That It Was a Political Gathering