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Arab Christian wedding in Galilee. Arab Christians are one of the most educated groups in Israel. Maariv has described the Christian Arab sectors as "the most successful in the education system". [264] Statistically, Christian Arabs in Israel have the highest rates of educational attainment among all religious communities.
Karima Kamal was born in 1949 into a Coptic family. [3] [4] [5] She studied journalism at Cairo University, graduating in 1971. [3]She later pursued graduate studies at the University of Chicago, an experience she would recall in her 1983 memoir Bint Misriyya fi Amreeka ("An Egyptian Girl in America").
The rate of students studying in the field of medicine was also higher among the Arab Christian students, compared with all the students from other sectors. The percentage of Arab Christian women who are higher education students is higher than other sectors. [109]
The survey also found Arab Christian women were the most educated demographic in Israel. [11] Concern was expressed by the patriarchs, however, over extremist groups in Israeli society. [ 11 ] In 2023, the Latin Patriarch—the head of the Latin Church in the Holy Land—alleged that a shift toward far-right politics under the premiership of ...
She was the second female Israeli Arab MK after Hussniya Jabara, and also the first female Christian MK. [3] Daud Turki – poet and the leader of the Israeli Jewish-Arab left-wing organization Revolutionary Communist alliance. Salim Joubran – Justice on the Supreme Court. [4] George Karra - Justice on the Supreme Court. [5]
Four Bethlehemi Christian women, 1911. Palestinian Christian-owned Falastin was founded in 1911 in the then Arab-majority city of Jaffa. The newspaper is often described as one of the most influential newspapers in historic Palestine, and probably the nation's fiercest and most consistent critic of the Zionist movement.
Nadia Hilou (Arabic: ناديا حلو, Hebrew: נאדיה חילו ; 5 July 1953 – 27 February 2015) was an Arab-Israeli social worker and politician, who served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party between 2006 and 2009. She was the second female Israeli Arab MK after Hussniya Jabara, and also the first female Christian MK. [1]
Coptic icon of St. Mark Portrait of a Coptic Christian woman by Bertha Müller, circa 1850 The Copts are one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East. Although integrated in the larger Egyptian nation state, the Copts have survived as a distinct religious community forming around 5 to 20 percent of the population.