Israeli President Hosts Quiet Meeting of Muslim and Jewish Leaders.

'The guests who arrived at the Israeli president’s home on Thursday evening were an eclectic mix. They included the chief Sephardic rabbi of Israel, the president of the Sharia Court of the Palestinian Authority and two rabbis from a West Bank yeshiva.

The highly unusual meeting was intended, according to organizers, to forge a joint effort against religious violence, and to promote peace and coexistence.

But, underscoring the fissures that have made the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so durable, the Palestinian religious leaders refused to be photographed, so there was no visual documentation of the meeting, and all but one refused to have their names appear in the official statements.

They seemed to be hoping the whole event would remain below the radar, and hours afterward it appeared to have gone unreported in the Palestinian news media.

Still, the host, President Reuven Rivlin, described the meeting in a statement as “important and significant— perhaps the most important meeting that could be held during these days.”'>>>

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