Residents of the Israeli town of Shfaram were seeking on Friday to make the world's largest tabbouleh salad, hoping to bring reconciliation after violent Christian-Druze clashes.
"We are trying to get the Guinness record," said event organizer Ala Khuria as residents were busy chopping 700 kilos (1,540 pounds) of tomatoes as well as other ingredients that should make up a more than four-tone salad.
We are doing it for the union of the town
But more important than surpassing the 3,557 kilos (7,825 pounds) some 300 Lebanese chefs stirred into a giant bowl in October, is bringing together the town's Muslims, Christians and Druze, Khuria told AFP.
"We are doing it for the union of the town," he said.
The northern Israeli town was rocked in June by Christian-Druze riots that broke out over rumors of the posting on Internet of a video clip vilifying a Druze religious leader.
Druze, followers of a breakaway sect of Islam, make up about 10 percent of the town's population, Christians 35 percent and Muslims 55 percent.
Tabbouleh is a popular Middle Eastern salad whose ingredients include parsley, bulgur, tomato, lemon juice and olive oil.
Residents documented every step of the preparation to send on to adjudicators of the Guinness Book of World Records.
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