• The Druze community in Israel consists of Arabic-speaking believers from an 11th Century off-shoot of Ismaili Shiite theology. The religion is considered heretical by orthodox Islam.
• Members of the sect reside predominantly in mountainous areas in Israel, Lebanon, and Syria.
• At the end of 2008, the Druze population in Israel (121,900 inhabitants) constituted 8.2% of the Arab population, or 1.7 percent of the total population in Israel.[

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