This is a list of notableIsraeli Druze.

The list is ordered by category of human endeavor. Persons with significant contributions in two fields are listed in both of the pertinent categories, to facilitate easy lookup.

• Dr.Reda Mansour – poet, historian, and diplomat, Israeli Ambassador to Ecuador, Brazil, and Panama.
• Prof.Toufik Mansour – mathematician and professor at Haifa University working in the field ofcombinatorics.^[1][2][3]
• Prof.Salman Zarka – physician and current Director ofZiv Medical Center inSafed;Israel Defense Forces Colonel, senior lecturer at theHaifa University and theHebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Rami Zeedan – political scientist and historian, associate professor of Israel Studies at theUniversity of Kansas, founding editor of theDruze Studies Journal.

• Salman Zarka – physician and current Director ofZiv Medical Center inSafed;Israel Defense Forces Colonel, senior lecturer at theHaifa University and theHebrew University of Jerusalem.

• Hamad Amar – politician and currently serves as a member of theKnesset forYisrael Beiteinu.^[4]
• Naim Araidi – academic, writer, and Israeli Ambassador to Norway
• Jabar Asakla – politician who served as a member of theKnesset for theJoint List, now secretary of theHadash Party
• Assad Assad – former officer, diplomat, and politician who served as a member of theKnesset forLikud between 1992 and 1996.^[5]
• Shafik Assad – politician who served as a member of the Knesset for theDemocratic Movement for Change, theDemocratic Movement,Ahva, andTelem
• Zeidan Atashi – former diplomat and politician who served as a member of theKnesset for theDemocratic Movement for Change andShinui between 1977 and 1981, and again from 1984 until 1988.^[6]
• Amal Nasser el-Din – author and former politician who served as a member of theKnesset forLikud between 1977 and 1988; awarded theIsrael Prize, the Prime Minister's Prize for the Commemoration of Fallen Soldiers, and the Yakir Haifa Award
• Salah-Hassan Hanifes – politician who served as a member of theKnesset forProgress and Work between 1951 and 1959.
• Akram Hasson – politician who served as a member of theKnesset from 2012 to 2019, first forKadima and then forKulanu; he was Kadima's leader, marking the first time aDruze had led a Jewish party.
• Ayoob Kara – former member of theKnesset forLikud andIsraeli Minister of Communications, formerlyDeputy Minister for Development of the Negev and Galilee.
• Abdullah Abu Ma'aruf – doctor and politician, served as a member of theKnesset for theJoint List between 2015 and 2017.
• Reda Mansour – poet, historian, diplomat, Israeli Ambassador to Ecuador, Brazil, and Panama
• Mufid Mari – member in theKnesset forBlue and White from 2021 to 2022.
• Amit Mekel – diplomat,Israeli Ambassador to Paraguay
• Gadeer Mreeh — journalist and politician, serving as a member of the Knesset forBlue and White since April 2019. She is the first Druze woman to serve in the Knesset, and the first Druze woman to anchor a Hebrew-language news program on Israeli television.^[7]
• Jabr Muadi – politician who served as a member of the Knesset for seven different parties between 1951 and 1981.
• Fateen Mulla – politician who served as a member of theKnesset forLikud between 2019 and 2022, and served as DeputyMinister in the Prime Minister's Office.
• Mohamed Nafa – politician who served as a member of the Knesset forHadash from 1990 until 1992.^[8]
• Said Nafa – member of the Knesset for theArab partyBalad.^[9]
• Labib Hussein Abu Rokan – politician who served as a member of the Knesset forCooperation and Brotherhood between 1959 and 1961.^[10]
• Saleh Saad – politician who served as a member of the Knesset for theZionist Union andLabor Party between 2017 and 2019.
• Ali Salalha – politician who served as a member of the Knesset forMeretz from 2021 to 2022.
• Shachiv Shnaan – served as a member of the Knesset for theLabor Party between 2008 and 2009.
• Salah Tarif – member of the Knesset between 1992 and 2006. When appointedMinister without Portfolio byAriel Sharon in 2001, he became Israel's first non-Jewishgovernment minister.^[11]
• Majalli Wahabi – politician who served as a member of the Knesset forLikud,Kadima, andHatnuah. He briefly assumed the position ofPresident of Israel due to PresidentMoshe Katzav's leave of absence and Acting PresidentDalia Itzik's trip abroad in February 2007, making him the first non-Jew to act as Israel's head of state.^[12]

• Alim Abdallah – deputy commander of the Israeli 300th Brigade of the91st Division,Lieutenant-Colonel.
• Ghassan Alian – first non-Jewish commander of theGolani Brigade.^[13]
• Munir Amar – Brigadier General in the IDF, served as commander of theSword Battalion, he died in a plane crash while serving as the Head of the Civil Administration of the West Bank, which functions as a subdivision of theCOGAT.^[14]
• Imad Fares – formerBrig. General in theIsraeli Defense Force. He won acclaim as the commander of theGivati Brigade (infantry) from 2001–2003.
• Salman Habaka – commander of the188th Armored Brigade's 53rd Battalion killed in action during theGaza war
• Majdi Halabi – disappeared on May 24, 2005, at age 19, while attempting to hitchhike from his hometown to hisOrdnance Corps camp nearTirat Carmel.^[15]
• Ihab Khatib – Sergeant Major
• Yusef Mishleb – General; Served in part as commander of the Etzion Regional Brigade, commander of theEdom Division, asCoordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, and as the commander of theHome Front Command.^[16]
• Haiel Sitawe and Kamil Shnaan – border police^[17]
• Salman Zarka – physician and current Director ofZiv Medical Center inSafed;Israel Defense Forces Colonel, senior lecturer at theHaifa University and theHebrew University of Jerusalem.

• Ahad Azam – footballer playing forBnei Eilat and the Israeli national junior team
• Sari Falah – footballer playing forBnei Sakhnin, the Israeli national junior team, and bronze medalist in the2009 Maccabiah Games
• Shareef Keouf – footballer playing forMaccabi Haifa and the Israeli national junior team
• Mahran Lala – former footballer^[18]
• Nazar Mahmud –figure skater.
• Kenny Saief – American-Israeli footballer playing forMaccabi Haifa and the Israeli national team
• Saleh Shahin (born 1982) – Team Israel Paralympic medalist rower

• Naim Araidi – academic, writer, and Israeli Ambassador to Norway
• Suliman Bashear – scholar, writer, and professor of the early historiography of Islam.
• Reda Mansour – poet, historian, and diplomat, Israeli Ambassador to Ecuador, Brazil, and Panama.
• Salman Masalha – poet, writer, essayist, and translator.
• Samih al-Qasim – poet^[19]
• Salman Natour – writer, journalist, and playwright.^[20]
• Rami Zeedan – author, political scientist, and historian.^[21]

• Azzam Azzam – convicted in Egypt in 1997 of spying for Israel, and jailed for eight years. He maintained his innocence throughout the ordeal.^[22]

• Tiran Fero – teenager removed from life support and held hostage by members of theJenin Brigades armed group
• Fatma Shanan – painter
• Amin Tarif – Sheikh, the spiritual leader of the Druze in Israel from 1928 till his death in 1993.^[23]
• Mowafaq Tarif – grandson of Amin Tarif and spiritual leader of the Druze in Israel since 1993.
• Mike Sharif – singer
• Loai Ali – singer and actor

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