Kurds in Israel
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Kurds in Israel refers to people of
Population
Historically, a small Arabized population of Kurdish origins exists in Galilee and Jerusalem area, though it has mostly intermixed with local Arabs; their exact numbers are not available since they are counted as ethnic Arabs in the official Israeli census. Some Arabized families of Kurdish background can still be identified by specific surnames.
The 1922 census of Palestine lists 18 Kurdish speakers in Mandatory Palestine (8 in Samaria and 10 in the Northern District), including 10 in municipal areas (1 in Haifa, 1 in Nablus, 1 in Tiberias, and 7 in Jenin).[2]
The Kurdish population in Israel is small and is mainly composed of individuals and families, who fled Iraq and Turkey during the Iraqi–Kurdish and the Kurdish–Turkish conflicts during the 20th century. In 2006, the number of Kurdish refugees from Turkey was estimated at 200.[1] Another estimate for both Iraqi and Turkish Kurds was 150 persons in 2007.
In March 2001, a group of 19 Kurdish men entered Israel via Lebanon, asking for asylum, but were denied.[3] In mid-2001, a group of 42 Kurdish refugees attempted to enter Israel via Lebanon, illegally crossing the Israeli–Lebanese border, but were returned to Lebanon.[4]
In 2007, 40 Iraqi Kurdish children, mostly from Iraqi Kurdistan, were hosted with their parents and medically treated in Israel, as part of the project initiated by Israeli Save a Child's Heart Organization (SACH).[5] In 2013, it was reported that Israel accepted three Kurdish children from Iraqi Kurdistan for medical treatment.[6] The children were settled into Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, southern Tel Aviv area. They were some of the 183 children with Iraqi nationality, entering Israel for medical treatment since the establishment of the program.
In January 2015, Yazidi organizations made an official request from Israeli government to absorb Yazidi refugees from Iraq. There was no official statement by Israeli government as a result, but Yazidi sources claimed that refugee absorption took place and thanked Israeli government.[7] There was no response from Israeli Parliament members, upon asking them on this matter of absorbing Yazidi refugees.[8]
Relations with Israeli Jewish community of Kurdistani background
Israel is a home to some 200,000 Jews of Kurdistani origins, who are mostly descended from nearly 50 thousand Kurdish Jews evacuated from Iraq during Operation Ezra and Nehemiah in the early 1950s. Israeli Jews of Kurdistani background preserve ties with the ethnic Kurdish communities in the Middle East, including with the Kurdish individuals residing in Israel.
Notable people
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- Jewish insurgency in Palestine
- Zvi Bar, Israeli military officer, police official, and politician
- Yosef Shiloach, Israeli actor
- Yitzhak Mordechai, Israeli former general and politician
- Hebrew
- Mickey Levy, Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid and Speaker of the Knesset
- Kurdistani Jewishscholar, linguist and researcher
- Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli lawyer and politician and a leader in the Israeli far-right Otzma Yehudit party
- Idan Amedi, Israeli singer-songwriter and actor
- Mossi Raz, Israeli politician. He is currently a member of the Knesset for Meretz
- Weizmann Institute
- Kurdistani Jewish scholar, linguist and researcher. He is professor emeritus of Hebrew at the University of California, Los Angeles
- football player and current manager
- Alignmentbetween 1974 and 1977
- Itzik Shmuli, Israeli politician who served as the Minister of Labor, Welfare and Social Services and as a Member of the Knesset on behalf of the Israeli Labor Party; formerly chairman of National Union of Israeli Students, and one of the leaders of the 2011 Israeli social justice protests
- Zvi Yehezkeli, Israeli television journalist and documentarian. He is an Arab affairs correspondent and head of the Arab desk at Israeli News 13, the news division of Israel 13
- stand-up comedianand actor
- judoka. He won a bronze medal in the +100 kg category at the 2016 Summer Olympics and another one at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He is the second of two Israelis to win two Olympic medals
- Yair Lapid – leader of the Yesh Atid party, minister of finance (2013–March 2015) & minister of foreign affairs
- Yosef Lapid – former leader of the Shinuiparty
- Amir Ohana – first openly gay right-wing (Likud) member of the Knesset & former minister of justice
- Shimon Peres – President of Israel (2007–2014); prime minister (1984–86, 1995–96); Nobel Peace Prize (1994)
- Yitzhak Rabin – prime minister (1974–77, 1992–95); Nobel Peace Prize (1994) (assassinated November 1995)
- Reuven Rivlin – President of Israel
- Ayelet Shaked – Knesset parliament right-wing member (2013–) & minister (2015–)
- Yitzhak Shamir – prime minister (1983–84, 1986–92)
- Yisrael Yeshayahu Sharabi – former speaker of the Knesset
- Nir Shavit – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize (2004)
- RSAencryption, differential cryptanalysis; Turing Award (2002)
- Saharon Shelah – logic; Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2001)
- Ehud Shapiro – Concurrent Prolog, DNA computing pioneer
- Moshe Y. Vardi – computer scientist, winner of the Gödel Prize(2000)
- Nevanlinna Prize(1994)
- Moshe Sharett – prime minister (1954–55)
- Ariel Sharon – prime minister (2001–06)
- Chaim Weizmann – first President of Israel(1949–52)
- Ovadia Yosef – spiritual leader of the Shasparty
- Rehavam Zeevi – founder of the Moledet party, Knesset parliament memember & minister (assassinated by Palestiniansin October 2001)
- Pnina Rosenblum (female) – Knessetparliament member for Likud (2005–2006)
- Orly Levy-Abekasis (female) – Knessetparliament member for Likud (2009–) & minister (2020–2021)
- Alignmentbetween 1977 and 1984
- Matan Barashi, Israeli footballer who currently plays for Ironi Beit Shemesh
- Aviram Baruchyan, Israeli Footballer
- Evyatar Baruchyan, Israeli Footballer
- Ofir Kriaf, Israeli Footballer
- Avi Rikan, Israeli association football player
- Ohad Saidof, Israeli Footballer
- Aviel Zargari, Israeli Footballer
- Avi Cohen – defender, Liverpool and national team
- Tamir Cohen – midfielder (Bolton Wanderers and national team)
- Rami Gershon – centre back / left back Yaniv Katan – forward/winger (Maccabi Haifa, national team)
- Eli Ohana – won UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and Bravo Award (most outstanding young player in Europe); national team; manager
- Galatasaray
- Ronnie Rosenthal– left winger/striker (Israel national team), Maccabi Haifa, Liverpool, Tottenham, Watford
- Ben Sahar – striker/winger (Hapoel Tel Aviv, national team)
See also
- Kurdish Jews in Israel
- Iraqi Kurdistan–Israel relations
References
- ^ a b Hebrew: טורקיה והכורדים: קלאב MAD [1]
- ^ Palestine Census ( 1922).
- ^ Ben-Dor, Anat; Adut, Rami. "Israel - A Safe Haven? Problems in the Treatment Offered by the State of Israel to Refugees and Asylum Seekers" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-04.
- ^ "נדחתה בקשתם של 42 כורדים למקלט מדיני". Haaretz. 10 August 2001.
- ^ Technologies, Slavin-Internet. "IMA -".
- ^ "Kurdish children from Iraqi Kurdistan receive medical treatment in Israel".
- ^ "News1 - האם ייתכן שישראל קלטה פליטים יזידים".
- ^ "Israel's Yazidi 'ambassador' explains why so many want to join the IDF". Times of Israel.