“Ziyarat al-Nabi Shu’ayb” Druze Holiday Multifaith Celebration

With Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif, Anat Lev Or, Sheikh Khalid Abu Ras, David Less, & Sheikh Ghassan Manasra

11am EDT / 4pm London / 6pm Jerusalem

Dear Friends,

You are invited to this online, multifaith celebration of the Druze Holiday Zirayat al-Nabi Shuaib, with commentary from the Head of the Druze Community in Israel, Mowafaq Tarif, in addition to other peacebuilders from the Abrahamic Reunion — Anat Lev Or, Sheikh Khalid Abu Ras, David Less, and Sheikh Ghassan Manasra.

This holiday is a 3-day feast commemorating the Prophet Jethro, the founder of the Druze faith. The main feature of this holiday is pilgrimage to the tomb of Prophet Jethro (Father-in-law of Moses), in the Galilee.

Join us in wishing well and celebrating with our Druze friends their sacred holiday!  

Sheikh Mowafaq Tarif

Shaykh Mowafaq Tarīf is the current spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel. Tarif was born in 1963 in the city of Julis. Since 1753, his family has been leading the Druze community in Mandatory Palestine and then Israel. In 1993, he inherited the position of spiritual leader from his grandfather, Shaykh Amin Tarif.  

Anat Lev Or

Anat Lev Or from Israel, is a mother and spiritual teacher and companion for over 30 years. Anat accompanies people in the process of growth and change, as well as businessmen through spiritual, practical, and business aspects.  Anat has been Ghassan Manasra’s partner for 25 years in building projects that are shared by all religions, working as peacemakers and establishing study groups such as a program for teachers and school executives from all religions, Muslims, Christians, and Jews. She helps organized also family encounters so different religious groups can recognize one another and that their children will meet and recognize a different culture. She has taught groups the Sufi way through peace and love including poetry, philosophy, etc.

Sheikh Khalid Abu Ras PhD AL-IMAN Mosque, Kefar Eillut – Nazareth.

David Less

Abrahamic Reunion US Board Chair

David Less is a global teacher of meditation and interfaith dialog of over forty years. For over a decade he was the Global Dean of the Universal Worship, an organization in over thirty countries,that honors the commonality in all religions and appreciates and respects the differences. He started promoting understanding rather than blame as a path to peace in the Holy Land in 2000 and was one of the founders of the Abrahamic Reunion shortly thereafter.  To contact, reach out to info@abrahamicreunion.org

Sheikh Ghassan Manasra

Abrahamic Reunion International Director

Sheikh Ghassan Manasra was one of the Abrahamic Reunion’s Co-Coordinators in the Holy Land until moving to the US in 2015, and has been an active contributing Peacemaker with the AR for more than a decade. He is an ordained Sheikh in the Qadiri Sufi Order in the Holy Land, and son of Sheikh Abdel Salaam Manasra – head of the Qadiri Sufi Order in the Holy Land. He is the founder of Anwar-Il-Salaam, the Lights of Peace Center in Nazareth, and  is Director, Islamic Cultural Center in Nazareth. Ghassan is an expert and lectures in Islam, Islamic history, Sufism, and contemporary Muslim issues  in the Middle East, Europe, and the USA. Ghassan@abrahamicreunion.org