Sheikh Muwafaq Tarif

Dr. Miriam Adelson leads 2025 Israeli Presidential honorees

President Isaac Herzog has named nine distinguished individuals, including Miriam Adelson and Israeli-Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Muwaffaq Tarif, for the 2025 Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor.

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Miriam Adelson attends the Israel Hayom security conference in Jerusalem, December 1, 2024
People hold a Druze flag, following deadly clashes between Druze fighters, Sunni Bedouin tribes and government forces, in Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida, Syria July 25, 2025.

Druze spiritual leader meets with US envoy to Syria and Lebanon in Paris

Sheikh Tarif requested that the United States work to fully implement the ceasefire agreement in a complete and immediate manner in the Druze Mountain region of Syria.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Druze leader Sheikh Muwafaq Tarif at the Prime Minster’s Office in Jerusalem on July 24, 2025.

Netanyahu, Druze spiritual leader meet in Jerusalem amid Syria ceasefire

This meeting comes ahead of Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer's meeting with US Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani in Paris.

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Interior Minister Moshe Arbel meets with Sheikh Muafak Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel.

'Partnership and responsibility': Planning committee for Druze, Circassian towns approved

Arbel confirmed that the recommendation for the committee came from the National Council for Planning and Building, and he fully endorsed the plan.

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‘Massacre of Druze in Syria is a warning sign for Israel,’ spiritual leader says

“After October 7 and in light of the growing threat from Hezbollah, can Israel afford to allow extremist groups to gain a foothold along its northern border?” asked Sheikh Muafak Tarif.

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Sheikh Muafak Tarif at a conference at the Western Galilee Academic College.

One wounded in gathering held by Syrian Druze sheikhs at Tiberias shrine during historic visit

The sheikhs arrived via buses to the border gate, where they were greeted by their Druze brethren living in Israel in a historic visit to the shrine of Nabi Shu'ayb.

MARCH 14, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Buses carrying senior figures from the Syrian Druze community welcomed by members of the Druze community in Israel, March 14, 2025

Grapevine July 30, 2024: Deja vu trends

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JULY 31, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
AT THE opening of the Maskit exhibition (from left): Ami Katz, Shachar Atwan, Sharon Tal, Raz Samira, and Nir Tal.

Druze spiritual leader urges Netanyahu to adjust Nation-State Law

"Now is the time for the government and the Knesset to initiate a change to the Nation-State Law and repair the historical distortion regarding the Druze community," Sheikh Muwafaq Tarif wrote.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023ByARIELLA MARSDEN
Mowafaq Tarif, head of the Druze community in Israel at a ceremony held for outgoign Supreme Court judge George Karra, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 29, 2022.

Israel's Druze sector threatens to cut ties with IDF after young woman drafted

Sheikh Muwafaq Tarif warned that "if the State of Israel wishes to maintain its alliance with the Druze community - it must set the record straight."

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Israeli soldiers and rescue forces seen at Mount Harif military base in the southern Negev desert, close to the border with Egypt, on June 3, 2023