Caught between two worlds, Druze in Israel fight for their rights
Bullet holes pepper the front windows of the old city council office and paramilitary police in armored jeeps patrol the main street in the mixed Muslim and Druze village of Abu Snan in the Galilee region.
In November, more than 40 people were injured in a brawl between the two communities, most of them by a grenade thrown into a group of Muslims.
Abu Snan, which is about half Muslim and a third Druze (the remainder Christian), has seen rising tension between Muslim Arab citizens of Israel and their Druze neighbors—adherents of a monotheistic religion whose roots lie in Islam but which today forms a distinct faith.
