In the video: the Druze community demands that members of the government not attend the Memorial Day ceremonies: "Our martyrs fell for a democratic state" (without)
Today (Sunday), the head of the Druze community, Sheikh Mofek Triff, sent a harsh letter to the country's president, Yitzhak Herzog, in which he wrote that "the state repeatedly violates its contract with its Druze citizens based on the principles of the Declaration of Independence."
During the president's visit in honor of the Prophet Shoaib holiday of the members of the Druze community, the head of the community asked for the president's personal intervention in dealing with the problems of the Druze residents in Israel and especially the issues of housing, planning and construction, which he said "threaten the collapse of Druze society".
Before the day of remembrance for the martyrs of the IDF and Israel's systems, Sheikh Triff claimed in his letter to Herzog that "the only moments in which equality is felt - in the minutes of silence in memory of the martyrs." He also demanded that the Druze community be a partner in the efforts to talk about the legal revolution at the President's House, for the sake of "anchoring its constitutional status and rights." "A few years ago, the Druze community was absent when the Nationality Law was enacted, which resulted in injury and injustice to the members of the community, which have not been corrected to this day."
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"The state is violating its contract."
The Military Cemetery in Esafia (Photo: Yoav Itiel)
On Friday, the Druze community called on the members of the government not to go to the military cemeteries on Remembrance Day.
"Don't come to us, don't come to the Memorial Day ceremonies and our cemeteries, because our martyrs fell for a democratic state, because our heroes fell for a liberal state, because our loved ones fell because they believed that a day would come and there would be peace and equality here," said the chairman of the Israeli Druze Center D. R. Amir Hanifs.
The Druze community has 429 dead buried and commemorated in the military cemeteries, 90 of which are buried in the military cemetery in Usafia, the first of the military cemeteries in the Druze settlements and the largest of them, which also serves as a central site, also symbolically.
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