 Following his appointment as archbishop of Akko, Haifa, Nazareth and All Galilee on October 20, 1968, Archbishop Joseph led a peaceful demonstration of thousands of Arabs and Jews in Israel seeking justice for the villages of Kafr Bir'im and Iqrit in Upper Galilee that had been depopulated in 1948, and then destroyed.Iqrit was the hometown of his second successor, Archbishop Elias Chacour.He sought justice through non-violent means and called upon Palestinians to be good citizens of Israel.