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Rami Zeedan is a Druze political scientist and historian, currently an associate professor of Israel Studies at the University of Kansas (USA). [1] Dr. Zeedan is the founding editor of the Druze Studies Journal (DSJ). [2]
Zeedan studied at the University of Haifa in Israel, completing his PhD in 2013. [3] Before joining the University of Kansas, he held positions at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, [4] New York University, [5] the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, [6] Kinneret College, [7] the Open University of Israel, and the University of California, Berkeley. [8]
At Kansas, Zeedan is a faculty member of the Jewish Studies Program, and affiliated with the Center for Global and International Studies. [9] He served on the board of the Association for Israel Studies (AIS) from 2015 to 2021 [10] and has been the book review editor of the journal Israel Studies Review since 2021. [11] [12] Zeedan was promoted to Associate Professor. [13]
He is an advocate for open-access scholarship [14] and is the editor in chief of the Druze Studies Journal (DSJ). [15] He organized the Druze Studies Symposium at KU in Fall 2023. [16]
Zeedan's work covers various aspects of the modern history and status of Palestinian-Arab citizens of Israel [17] [18] [19] and the Druze in Israel. [20] [21]
His first book, "Battalion of Arab- the History of the Minorities’ Unit in the IDF from 1948 to 1956" was published in Hebrew by Modan in 2015. [22] His second book, "The Arab-Palestinian Society in the Israeli Political System: Integration Versus Segregation in the Twenty-First Century", was published by Lexington Books in 2019. [23]
The demographics of Israel, monitored by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, encompass various attributes that define the nation's populace. Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has witnessed significant changes in its demographics. Formed as a homeland for the Jewish people, Israel has attracted Jewish immigrants from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
The Arab citizens of Israel form Israel’s largest ethnic minority. They are mostly former Palestinian citizens who have continued to live in what became Israel, and their descendants. The majority of Arabs in Israel now prefer to be identified as Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Daliyat al-Karmel is a Druze town located on Mount Carmel in the Haifa District of Israel, around 20 km southeast of Haifa. In 2022 its population was 18,001.
The Sword Battalion, previously Unit 300 and also known as the IDF Minorities Unit, was an Arab-dominated military unit of the Israel Defense Forces. It predominantly enlisted Druze, who made up the majority in the unit until it was disbanded in 2015, although a sizable number of recruits were Bedouin and non-Arab Circassians. Men from the Druze and Circassian communities are subject to Israeli conscription laws, while Bedouin and other Arabs may voluntarily enlist for military service.
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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 and Yarka. The population of Kafr Yasif is half Christian (52.1%) with the rest Muslim (44.9%), and a small Druze community.
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The WZB Berlin Social Science Center, also known by its German initials WZB, is an internationally renowned research institute for the social sciences, the largest such institution in Europe not affiliated with a university.
Israeli Druze or Druze Israelis are an ethnoreligious minority among the Arab citizens of Israel. They maintain Arabic language and culture as integral parts of their identity, and Arabic is their primary language. In 2019, there were 143,000 Druze people living within Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, comprising 1.6% of the total population of Israel. the majority of Israeli Druze are concentrated in northern Israel, especially in Galilee, Carmel and the Golan areas.
The Israel Studies Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal published on behalf of the Association for Israel Studies by Berghahn Books and covering the study of all aspects of society, history, politics, and culture of Israel. The journal was previously known as the Israel Studies Bulletin from 1992 to 2001 and as the Israel Studies Forum from 2001 to 2010. The editors of the journal since summer 2021 are Oded Haklai and Adia Mendelson-Maoz. Rami Zeedan is the journal's book review editor.
Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People, informally known as the Nation-State Bill or the Nationality Bill, is an Israeli Basic Law that specifies the country's significance to the Jewish people. It was passed by the Knesset—with 62 in favour, 55 against, and two abstentions—on 19 July 2018 and is largely symbolic and declarative in nature. The law outlines a number of roles and responsibilities by which Israel is bound in order to fulfill the purpose of serving as the Jews' nation-state. However, it was met with sharp backlash internationally and has been characterized as racist and undemocratic by some critics. After it was passed, several groups in the Jewish diaspora expressed concern that it was actively violating Israel's self-defined legal status as a "Jewish and democratic state" in exchange for adopting an exclusively Jewish identity. The European Union stated that the Nation-State Bill had complicated the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, while the Arab League, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and the Muslim World League condemned it as a manifestation of apartheid.
Israelization or Israelisation, also called Israelification, is a sociological term for the process in which minority groups in Israel adopt the lifestyle, language, culture, political and other characteristics of the dominant population in Israel.
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In Israel, the mixed cities or mixed towns are the eight cities with a significant number of both Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs. The eight mixed Jewish-Arab cities, defined by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics as those with more than 10% of the population registered as "Arabs" and more than 10% of the population registered as "Jews", include the following seven Israeli cities: Haifa, Lod, Ramle, Jaffa, Acre, Nof HaGalil, and Ma'alot Tarshiha. Approximately 10% of the Arab citizens of Israel live in these seven cities. The eighth city is Jerusalem, in which the Arab part of the city, East Jerusalem, has been annexed by Israel but is not recognized as such under international law.
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