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Israeli Druze Scouts march to Jethro's tomb. Today, thousands of Israeli Druze belong to such "Druze Zionist" movements. [167] The Druzites form a religious minority in Israel of more than 100,000, mostly residing in the north of the country. [168] In 2004, there were 102,000 Druze living in the country. [169]
The State of Jabal Druze was an autonomous area in the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon from 1921 to 1936. [4] [5] In the past, the name Jabal al-Druze was used for a different area, located in Mount Lebanon. [citation needed] In Syria, most Druze reside in the As-Suwayda Governorate, which
Jabal al-Druze was home to about 50,000 Druze. [1] [2] It was the first, and remains the only, autonomous entity to be populated and governed by Druze. The 1925 Syrian Revolution began in Jabal al-Druze under the leadership of Sultan al-Atrash, and quickly spread to Damascus and other non-Druze areas outside the Jabal al-Druze region.
Today, the Druze population is made up of more than 1 million people living primarily in Syria and Lebanon, where some have achieved high political office, as well as in Israel and Jordan.
Today, thousands of Israeli Druze belong to Druze Zionist movements. [ 110 ] In 2007, Nabiah A-Din, mayor of Kisra-Sumei , rejected the "multi-cultural" Israeli constitution proposed by the Israeli Arab organization Adalah : "The state of Israel is a Jewish state as well as a democratic state that espouses equality and elections.
Syrian Druze in the Golan have suffered from discriminatory policies, especially those relating to land and water allocation, according to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Druze Arabic dialect is distinguished from others by retention of the phoneme /qāf/. [36] The use of /q/ by Druze is particularly prominent in the mountains and less so in urban areas. The Druze are concentrated in the rural, mountainous areas east and south of Damascus in the area known officially as Jabal al-Druze. The Syrian Druze are ...
Syria is located in West Asia, north of the Arabian Peninsula, at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Lebanon and Israel to the west and southwest, Iraq to the east, and Jordan to the south. It consists of mountain ranges in the west and a steep area inland.