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List Of Arab Citizens Of Israel
This is a list of notable Israeli Arab citizens. Academia *Ghazi Falah, geography professor * Toufik Mansour, mathematician and professor at Haifa University in the field of combinatorics. * Rami Zeedan, author, political scientist, and historian Journalism *Lucy Aharish, Journalist and actrees * Yoseph Haddad, journalist and social media influencer *, journalist and politician *Suleiman Maswadeh, chief political correspondent for Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation *Ayman Sikseck, author and journalist Culture * Hiam Abbass, actress and film director * Talleen Abu Hanna, Miss Trans Israel * Mira Awad, singer-songwriter, represented Israel at Eurovision Song Contest * Lucy Ayoub, television presenter (mother was born Jewish, converted to Christianity) * Mohammad Bakri, actor and film director * Nas Daily, vlogger * Salim Daw, actor * Elham Dwairy Tabry, author * Angelina Fares, beauty pageant contestant; finalist in Miss Israel 2007.Nathan Burstein, ''Sister of Druze Miss I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israeli Arab
The Arab citizens of Israel form the country's largest ethnic minority. Their community mainly consists of former Palestinian Citizenship Order 1925, Mandatory Palestine citizens (and their descendants) who continued to inhabit the territory that was acknowledged as Israeli by the 1949 Armistice Agreements. Notions of identity among Israel's Arab citizens are complex, encompassing civic, religious, and ethnic components. Some sources report that the majority of Arabs in Israel prefer to be identified as Palestinian citizens of Israel, while recent surveys indicate that most name "Israeli", "Israeli-Arab", or "Arab" as the most important components of their identity, reflecting a shift of "Israelization" among the community. In the wake of the 1948 Palestine war, the Israeli government Israeli citizenship law#Status of Palestinian Arabs, conferred Israeli citizenship upon all Palestinians who had 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight, remained or were not expelled. However, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nas Daily
Nuseir Yassin (; ; born ) is an Israeli-Palestinian -Kittian vlogger, known as Nas Daily, from the name used on his YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram pages for his over 1,000 daily, one-minute-long videos. Early life and education Yassin was born in Arraba, Israel, to an Arab Muslim family of Palestinian descent. He is a Palestinian Arab with Israeli citizenship. Yassin had called himself Palestinian-Israeli as "I thought this term reflected who I was. Palestinian first. Israeli second." By August 2022 however he'd described himself in a Dubai interview as Israeli-Palestinian and in October 2023 tweeted "I view myself as an "Israeli-Palestinian." Israeli first. Palestinian second." He is the second of four children; his mother is a teacher and his father is a psychologist. Yassin's native language is Palestinian Arabic; he also speaks English and non-fluent Hebrew. Although he was raised as a Muslim, he has since largely stopped practicing Islam and has declared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reda Mansour
Reda Mansour (, ) is an Israeli Druze poet, historian and diplomat. He has published three books of Hebrew poetry and received the University of Haifa Miller Award as well as the State President Scholarship for young writers. Mansour was born (1965) in the Druze village of Isfiya in northern Israel. He has a Ph.D from the University of Haifa's Middle East History Department and a graduate of Harvard Kennedy School where he was a Wexner Israel Fellow. He studied Spanish at Salamanca University, and a general studies semester in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His field of research is the ''Changes in the Perception of Identity and Social Environment as Evident in the Intellectual Discourse in Syria During the Third Decade of the " Corrective Movement" 1988-2003''. Early life Reda Mansour, a Druze citizen of Israel, studied in Haifa between 1977–1983; first in the Leo Baeck Middle School and later in Basmat High School of the Technion (Israel’s institute of science ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Khoury
Clara Khoury (, ; born 29 December 1976) is an American actress of Palestinian origins. She works in film, television and theater. She grew up in Haifa, and now lives in California, US. Biography Clara Khoury is a Palestinian American actress born in Haifa, Israel. She is the daughter of the award-winning actor Makram Khoury. Her family is Greek Orthodox Christian. She studied cinema at the Open University in Tel Aviv and drama at the Beit Zvi Acting School. Acting career Khoury has worked in a variety of roles on stage including the lead in ''Antigone'' by Jean Anouih, ''The Glass Menagerie'' by Tennessee Williams and ''Salome'' by Oscar Wilde, in Arabic as well as in Hebrew and English. Her television work includes the series ''Parashat Hashavua'', written by Ari Folman, and ''Arab Labor'' written by Sayed Kashua. She made her big screen debut in 2002 in ''Rana's Wedding'' by Hany Abu-Assad (director of the Oscar-nominated ''Paradise Now'') which premiered in the Internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sayed Kashua
Sayed Kashua (, ; born 1975) is an author and journalist. He is a Palestinian people, Palestinian citizen of Israel, born in Tira, Israel. He is known for his books and humorous columns in Hebrew and English. Early life Kashua was born in Tira, Israel, Tira in the Triangle (Israel), Triangle region of Israel to Palestinian people, Palestinian Muslim-Arab parents. In 1990, he was accepted to a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem – Israel Arts and Science Academy. He studied sociology and philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Kashua was a resident of Beit Safafa before moving to a Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem with his wife and children. Kashua became a journalist, columnist and screenwriter, especially of TV series. In 2002 he published his first novel, ''Dancing Arabs (novel), Dancing Arabs''. His ''Haaretz'' column of July 4, 2014 was titled "Why Sayed Kashua is Leaving Jerusalem and Never Coming Back: Everything people had told him since he was a teenager ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmad Kanaan
Ahmad Kanaan (, ; born in 1965 in Tamra, Israel) is a Muslim Arab-Israeli painter and sculptor. He received a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel. He is the curator of Jaffa Salon of Palestinian Art. His work includes both paintings and sculptures artwork. He received several national and international awards: in 1989, he was the recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Prize, and in 2003, and 2010 he received the Artist in the Community Grant, from the Israeli Ministry of Culture. Career Kanaan has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Israel, the West Bank The West Bank is located on the western bank of the Jordan River and is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up the State of Palestine. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ..., the US, Japan, Russia, and Germany, including solo shows in Open Museum in Tefen, Museum on the Seam, Wilfrid Isra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasrin Kadri
Nasrin Kadri or Nasreen Qadri (; ; born 2 September 1986) is an Israeli singer. She mostly performs Hebrew songs, with a focus on Mizrahi music. However, she also performs Arabic songs, notably including those by Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum. In 2018, Kadri converted to Judaism from Islam. Biography Kadri was born in Haifa, Israel, to a family of Arab Israelis on 2 September 1986. Originally a Muslim, she was raised in Lod, where her father was a taxi driver and her mother was a nurse. Around 2004, Qadri began a relationship with Israeli musician Aviezer Ben-Moha, who is Jewish. She began her conversion to Judaism during this time. In July 2017, the couple became engaged, but broke up and cancelled their upcoming wedding two months later. Upon completing the process of converting in 2018, Kadri took the Hebrew name "Bracha" (), although her official name remains unchanged. However, because the rabbi who oversaw her conversion did so independently of the appropriate Israeli re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Jubran
Hanna Jubran (, ) is a Palestinian Arab Israeli sculptor, born in Jish, the upper Galilee. His work addresses the concepts of time, movement, balance and space. Each sculpture occupies and creates its own reality influenced by its immediate surroundings. The work does not rely on one media to evoke the intended response, but takes advantage of compatible materials such as, wood, granite, steel, iron and bronze. He received his M.F.A. in 1983 in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and is currently a Sculpture Professor and Sculpture Area Coordinator at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. International art shows, competitions and symposia The International Sculpture Symposium in Granby, Quebec, Canada, The Ecatepec, Mexico International Monumental Sculpture Symposium, The Toyamura International Sculpture Biennial at Toyamura Village, Japan, The International Sculpture Symposium and Conference at Europos Parkas in Vilnius, Lithuania, The Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Issa
Norman Issa (, ; born 17 June 1967) is an Arab-Israeli actor, director in cinema, theatre and television. Biography Norman Issa was born and raised in Haifa, Israel, to a Maronite Christian-Arab family. He studied acting at Beit Zvi. He is married to Jewish-Israeli playwright Gidona Raz, with whom he has three sons. Lear and Sean Issa are actors. The couple jointly founded the multicultural Elmina Theater in Jaffa, Israel. They reside in Jaffa. Theater, television and film career Issa has acted in many plays by William Shakespeare at the Haifa Theatre and Cameri Theatre. He worked at The Arab-Hebrew Theater together with fellow Arab-Israeli actor Yousef "Joe" Sweid. He was the main protagonist of the Israeli television sitcom ''Arab Labor'', created by Arab-Israeli journalist Sayed Kashua. In 2015, Issa refused to perform in a settlement in the Jordan Valley. In response, Israeli Minister of Culture Miri Regev threatened to shut down Israeli government funding to the th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rashid Hussein
Rashid Hussein Mahmoud (, ; 1936 – 2 February 1977) was a Palestinian poet, orator, journalist and Arabic-Hebrew translator. He was born in Musmus, Mandatory Palestine. He published his first collection in 1957. He was the first prominent poet to appear on the Israeli Arab stage. Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish called him "the star", who wrote about "human things" like bread, hunger and anger. Biography Early life and teaching career Hussein was born to a Muslim Fellah family in Musmus in 1936,Marmorstein 1964, p. 3. during British Mandatory rule in Palestine. He attended elementary school in Umm al-Fahm, a town near his home village. He was educated in Nazareth, where he graduated from Nazareth Secondary School. Hussein described himself as a "lax Muslim", once writing in 1961, "I do not pray and I do not go to the mosque and I know that in this I am disobeying the will of God ... thousands of people like me are lax in fulfilling the divine precepts. But these disobedient t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emile Habibi
Emile Shukri Habibi (, ; 28 January 1922 – 2 May 1996) was a Palestinian-Israeli writer of Arabic literature and a politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the communist parties Maki and Rakah. Biography Habibi was born in Haifa on 28 January 1922 into an Anglican Christian, Palestinian Arab family. His father originated in Shefa-Amr. The family had originally belonged to the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem but converted to Anglicanism due to disputes within the Orthodox church. In his early life, he worked on an oil refinery and later was a radio announcer. Under the Mandate he became one of the leaders of the Palestine Communist Party. When the 1948 Arab-Israeli War began, he remained in Haifa and became an Israeli citizen. After the war, he helped to create the Communist Party of Israel and established the communist paper '' Al-Ittihad''. In 1956, he moved from Haifa to Nazareth and remained there for the rest of his life. He died in 1996 in Nazare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Israel
Miss Israel (also referred to as , , ) was a national beauty pageant in Israel. The pageant was founded in 1950, where the winners were sent to Miss Universe. History In the late 1920s, a "Esther, Queen Esther Beauty Pageant" was held in Tel Aviv, centred on the holiday of Purim. The first Miss Israel took place in 1950, two years after Israel's independence. From then onwards, Miss Israel was the national franchise holder for Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss International. The pageant's official winner represented Israel at Miss Universe and the runners-up at Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Europe. The winner also occasionally competed at other international pageants, such as Miss World in 1953, 1968, 1992, 1996–1998; Miss International in 1963; Miss Asia Pacific International; and Miss Earth. In 2022, the pageant was cancelled amid controversies over its relevance to modern social standards. Pageant rules All contestants were required to be female, 170 centimetr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
