(15 Mar 2025)
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Nabi Shuaib shrine compound, Northern Israel – 15 March 2025
1. Syrian Druze clerics meet with Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, Druze spiritual leader in Israel
2. Greeting between Druze from Israel and Syria
3. Flag of Israel next to the flag of the Druze communities
4. Various of Syrian Druze arriving to Nabi Shuaib shrine compound
5. Exterior of Nabi Shuaib shrine compound
6. Various of Syrian Druze clerics posing for photo with Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif
7. Various of Syrian Druze clerics talking to Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif
8. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, Druze spiritual leader in Israel:
“The situation (in Syria) is very sensitive and very explosive, the situation is bad economically and in terms of security. We hope that the new regime will represent all citizens of Syria, with the participation of all minorities, not just fundamentalists and jihadists, so that it becomes a state for all its people. The ongoing situation is very worrying."
9. Various of Druze clerics posing for photo
10. Various of Druze clerics and women visiting the Nabi Shuaib grave
11. Druze clerics pose for photo
12. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, Druze spiritual leader in Israel
"It’s clear, it’s a historic visit. A historic visit to see religious clerics visiting a holy place, a religious place, prayers. I hope this can show the whole world that just as it is right for Muslims to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, and for Christians to come to Jerusalem and other places, it is right for the Druze to come."
13. Various of Druze clerics and women at the shrine
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Nabi Shuaib shrine compound, Northern Israel – 14 March 2025
14. Young Druze men holding Druze community flags
15. Various of masked people shooting in the air in celebration of the arrival of the Syrian Druze
STORYLINE:
The spiritual leader of the Druze in Israel on Saturday called for Syria’s new government to represent all minorities.
“The ongoing situation is very worrying,” said Sheikh Mowafaq during a visit by Syrian Druze to the Nabi Shuaib shrine compound in northern Israel.
Tarif said he hope the new government "will represent all citizens of Syria, with the participation of all minorities, not just fundamentalists and jihadists, so that it becomes a state for all its people.”
Dozens of clerics and others from Syria’s minority Druze community crossed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights on Friday for the first time in decades, and later moved to visit the shrine compound.
The nearly 100 Syrian Druze crossed the heavily-fortified border area in three buses, escorted by members of the Israeli military.
The Druze are one of the Middle East’s most insular religious sects, beginning as a 10th-century offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam.
Most Druze religious practices are shrouded in secrecy, with outsiders not allowed to convert.
AP video by Alon Bernstein
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