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Israeli Druze citizens serve in the Israel Defense Forces. [117] The Jewish-Druze partnership was often referred to as "a covenant of blood" (Hebrew: ברית דמים, brit damim) in recognition of the common military yoke carried by the two peoples for the security of the country.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Ethnic group Arab citizens of Israel عرب ٤٨ المواطنون الفلسطينيين في إسرائيل עֲרָבִים אֶזרָחֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל Map of Arab localities in Israel, 2015 Total population Green Line, 2023: 2,065,000 (21%) East Jerusalem and Golan ...
However, the number of Druze who took Israeli citizenship jumped to over 20% by 2018 and kept rising during the Syrian Civil War. [51] [52] Those who apply for Israeli citizenship are entitled to vote, run for Knesset and receive an Israeli passport. For foreign travel, non-citizens are issued a laissez passer by the Israeli authorities. As ...
Druze who do not hold Israeli citizenship are not subject to mandatory service. At least 10 Druze officers and soldiers have been killed since Oct. 7, according Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, ...
Most Druze there identify as Syrian and have rejected offers of Israeli citizenship. Alim Abdallah was killed in action on Israel's border with Lebanon. - Courtesy Mona Abdallah Saad
There have been Israeli Arab members of the Knesset ever since the first Knesset elections in 1949. The following is a list of the 100 past and present members. Some Israeli Druze dispute the label "Arab" and consider Druze to be a separate ethnic group.
In the annexed Golan Heights, out of nearly 27,000 Golan Druzes, 17,000 can vote but only about 5,000 are Israeli citizens, the remainder hold Syrian citizenship and have the status of permanent residents which allows them to vote for municipal elections, but until 2018 there were only appointed representatives to local councils in the Golan's ...
In the Golan heights, there's an additional self-selection bias in voting results: The pro-Syrian Druze refuse Israeli citizenship and therefore don't vote, while the pro-Israeli Druze are the ones voting. --Delirium 11:12, 11 February 2006 (UTC) Just to make it more accurate: very few Golan Heights Druze actually vote.