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The Druze are an ethnoreligious group concentrated in Syria, Lebanon, and Israel with around one million adherents worldwide. The Druze follow a millenarian offshoot of Isma'ili Shi'ism. Followers emphasize Abrahamic monotheism but consider the religion as separate from Islam. ^ J. Stewart, Dona (2008).
Other Druze respondents identify their ethnicity as "Druze" or "Druze-Arab". [102] According to the Israel Democracy Institute survey conducted in 2015, around 54% of Druze respondents said that religious identity (the Druze identity) is the most important identity for them, followed by Israeli identity (37%) and Arab identity (5%).
Reda Mansour – poet, historian, diplomat, Israeli Ambassador to Ecuador, Brazil, and Panama. Mufid Mari – member in the Knesset for Blue and White from 2021 to 2022. Gadeer Mreeh — journalist and politician, serving as a member of the Knesset for Blue and White since April 2019. She is the first Druze woman to serve in the Knesset, and ...
Druze leader of the Lebanese Democratic Party, Talal Arslan, said: "The Golan will not fall into the trap of Israel's project to pretend to protect minorities" [79] Ahmad Qabalan, Lebanon's Grand Jaafari Mufti, said: "To the Druze brothers in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine: our blood, spirit, and struggle are unified, and so is our enemy.
Conscription. Since the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948, fixed-term military service has been compulsory in Israel. The draft laws of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) only apply to Jews (males and females), Druze (males only), and Circassians (males only). Because the Druze and Circassian communities are less populous, their women ...
Nazira Zain al-Din. Nazira Zain al-Din (Zain al-Din also translated to Zeineddine, Zain also written Zayn) (1908–1976) was a Druze Lebanese scholar. [1][2] She criticized Arab culture for what she claimed were its "degrading" practices. She railed against the traditional "head to toe veil" worn by Muslim women at the time and the seclusion of ...
Women in the Israel Defense Forces. Israel is one of only a few countries where military service is compulsory for all able-bodied female citizens. Under Israeli conscription laws, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) may draft recruits from three communities: the Jews, the Druze, and the Circassians. As the latter two communities are less populous ...
Her family were Druze; her father was a military physician and public health official. Her uncles were journalist Suleiman Abu Izzaddin and judge Muhammad Abu 'Izz al-Din . She attended the American School for Girls in Beirut, the Lycée Racine in Paris, and graduated from Vassar College in 1930.