Israeli Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau said he supports the rights of Muslims to regain possession of abandoned mosques. After Israel’s War of Independence, mosques in locations where there were no longer Arab communities were taken over by Israeli authorities.
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