| Orthodox Christian Scout Association | |||
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| Founded | 1968 | ||
| Membership | 2,500 | ||
| Affiliation | World Organization of the Scout Movement | ||
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The Orthodox Scout Association was founded in 1968. [1] As of 2011, the Orthodox Scouts maintain a membership of approximately 2,500, ages 7 to 18. [2] [3] They are aligned to the Arab and Druze Scouts Movement. The emblem features the wreath from the flag of the United Nations.
The State of Israel had a population of approximately 9,408,100 inhabitants as of September 2021. Some 74.24% were Jews of all backgrounds, 20.95% were Arab of any religion other than Jewish, while the remaining 4.81% were defined as "others", including people of Jewish ancestry deemed non-Jewish by religious law and persons of non-Jewish ancestry who are family members of Jewish immigrants, Christian non-Arabs, Muslim non-Arabs and all other residents who have neither an ethnic nor religious classification.
Palestinian Christians are Christian citizens of the State of Palestine. In the wider definition of Palestinian Christians, including the Palestinian refugees, diaspora and people with full or partial Palestinian Christian ancestry this can be applied to an estimated 500,000 people worldwide as of 2000. Palestinian Christians belong to one of a number of Christian denominations, including Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism, other branches of Protestantism and others. Bernard Sabella of Bethlehem University estimates that 6% of the Palestinian population worldwide is Christian and that 56% of them live outside of the region of Palestine. In both the local dialect of Palestinian Arabic and in Classical Arabic or Modern Standard Arabic, Christians are called Nasrani or Masihi. Hebrew-speakers call them Notzri, which means Nazarene.
Israelis are the citizens and nationals of the State of Israel. The country's populace is composed primarily of Jews and Arabs, who respectively account for 75 percent and 20 percent of the national figure; followed by other ethnic and religious minorities, who account for 5 percent.
The Arab citizens of Israel are citizens of Israel who identify themselves as Arab. These include Palestinians, the Negev Bedouin, Druze people and Christian and Muslim Arabs who do not identify as Palestinians. Various terms are used for the Arab population in Arabic, including 48-Palestinian or 48-Arab. Ever since the Nakba, the Palestinians that have remained within Israel's 1948 borders have been colloquially known as "48 Arabs". The Arab population is called Israeli-Arabs or simply "Arabs" by Israel, and international media often use Arab-Israeli to distinguish them from Palestinians in the Palestinian territories.
Arab Christians are ethnic Arabs, Arab nationals, or Arabic-speakers who follow Christianity. The majority of Arab Christians are from the Eastern Mediterranean region, although small native Christian communities can be found throughout the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa. Arab Christians, mainly forming Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic communities, are estimated to number between 520,000 and 703,000 in Syria, 350,000 and 450,000 in Lebanon, 221,000 in Jordan, 133,130 in Israel, 50,000 in Palestine, 50,000 in Iraq, 18,000 in Turkey, and 10,000–350,000 in Egypt. There are also smaller Arab Christian communities in Bahrain, Yemen and Kuwait.
Yisrael Beiteinu is a secularist, nationalist right-wing political party in Israel. The party's base was originally secular Russian-speaking Israelis, although support from that demographic is in decline. The party describes itself as "a national movement with the clear vision to follow in the bold path of Zev Jabotinsky", the founder of Revisionist Zionism. It has primarily represented immigrants from the former Soviet Union, although it has attempted to expand its appeal to more established Israelis.
Religion in Israel is manifested primarily in Judaism, the ethnic religion of the Jewish people. The State of Israel declares itself as a "Jewish and democratic state" and is the only country in the world with a Jewish-majority population. Other faiths in the country include Islam, Christianity and the religion of the Druze people. Religion plays a central role in national and civil life, and almost all Israeli citizens are automatically registered as members of the state's 14 official religious communities, which exercise control over several matters of personal status, especially marriage. These recognized communities are Orthodox Judaism, Islam, the Druze faith, the Roman, Armenian Catholic, Maronite, Greek Catholic, Syriac Catholic, Chaldean, Greek Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic and Anglican churches, and the Baháʼí Faith.
The Israel Boy and Girl Scouts Federation is Israel's federation of the five Scouting organizations in Israel, sorted by religious affiliation. Some 90,000 boys and girls belong to organizations in the federation.
Kafr Yasif is an Arab town in the Northern District of Israel. It is located 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) northeast of the city of Acre and adjacent to Abu Sinan, as well as Yarka. The population of Kafr Yasif is half Christian (52.1%) with the rest Muslim (44.9%), and a small Druze community.
Rameh is an Arab town in the Northern District of Israel. Located east of Nahf and Karmiel, in 2019 it had a population of 7,728. Over half of the inhabitants are Christians, mostly Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic, over a third are Druze and the remainder are Muslims.
Islam is the second-largest religion in Israel, constituting around 17.8% of the country's population. The ethnic Arab citizens of Israel make up the majority of its Muslim population, making them the largest minority group in Israel.
Christianity in Israel is called Natsrut b'Yisrael in Modern Hebrew and al-Masihiat fi 'Isra'il in Arabic.
Following are timelines of the history of Ottoman Syria, taken as the parts of Ottoman Syria provinces under Ottoman rule.
The Arab and Druze Scouts Movement is a coeducational member of the Israel Boy and Girl Scouts Federation. The federation consists of Muslim Arab, Christian Arab, and Druze troops.
Present absentees are Arab internally displaced persons (IDPs) who fled or were expelled from their homes in Mandatory Palestine during the 1947–1949 Palestine war but remained within the area that became the state of Israel. The term applies also to the descendants of the original IDPs.
Druze Scouts Association in Israel is an Israeli Druze coed Scouting and Guiding association with about 5,000 members. It is the largest Druze youth organization.
Israel Muslim Scouts Association, or the new name Israel Arab Scouts Association was established in 1956. Today there are 14 tribes, most of them in the Galilee, but others are located in Jerusalem, in the center of Israel and in the Triangle. It is part of the Israel Boy and Girl Scouts Federation and the World Scouts Movement. Like other Scouting organizations it is based on community service, volunteering, giving and helping others.
Feminism in Israel is a complex issue in contemporary Israeli society due to the varied demographic makeup of the country and the country's particular balance of religion and state issues. For secular Israeli women, the successive campaigns for women's rights and equality reflect a similar timeline and progression as Western democracies. For Israeli Arabs, however, the issue of feminism is strongly linked to Palestinian causes. And for Orthodox Jews, selected women's rights and women's representation in the Israeli Parliament are recently debated issues.
The Israel Catholic Scouts Association was founded in 1951 from five Scout groups established since 1926. Today, the organization consists of 18 Scout groups which belong to the Greek Catholic, Latin, and Maronite creeds. Three archbishops are Co-Presidents of the organization.
Salman Hamud Fallah, was an educator, writer, and a history researcher who established the Druze Scouts Association in Israel. He was a supervisor at the Druze Education department and a vice president of the Ministry of Education and Culture. Falach wrote more than 80 books in Arabic, Hebrew and English on history and education. As a teenager he moved to Haifa city, where he graduated from secondary school at the Hebrew Reali School in 1954. After graduating his studies for the first and second degree (1963), he fulfilled his PHD at Princeton University in the USA (1997). Dr. Salman Hamud Fallah implemented the legacy of Druze studies as an integral part of the higher education curriculum. In 2017 the Centre of the Druze Legacy was established in his name in his native village Kisra-Smea.
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