Palestinian Metawalis

Palestinian Metawalis are a Palestinian Shiite community.

Orientalists Louis Lortet and Ernest Renan believe that Metawalis are Kurds, who migrated from Iraq to Palestine in the 13th century.^[1] During the time of Mandatory Palestine, Palestinian Metawalis had seven villages wherein they constituted the majority.^[2] During the first census of the British protectorate, Palestinian Metawalis were one of eight religious demographic groups categorized,^[3] and tensions existed regarding whether these people would be geopolitically united with their Shiite Arab counterparts in southern Lebanon.^[2]

References

^ Weiss, Max (2010). In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi'ism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon. Princeton, New Jersey: Harvard University Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0674052987.
^ ^a ^b "The Seven Lost Villages". Haaretz. 4 August 2006.
^ Barron, Table I.

[1] Weiss, Max (2010). In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi'ism, and the Making of Modern Lebanon. Princeton, New Jersey: Harvard University Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0674052987.

[haar-2] "The Seven Lost Villages". Haaretz. 4 August 2006.

[3] Barron, Table I.

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v t e Demographics of Israel
Israelis by religion	Judaism Rabbinic Conservative Reform Karaite Haymanot Islam Sunni Shia Ahmadiyya Christianity Eastern Orthodox Catholic Protestant Druzism¹ Samaritanism Bahai Hinduism Buddhism
Jews	Ashkenazim Romanian Russian Mizrahim Bukharan Georgian Iraqi Iranian Kurdish Moroccan Mountain Jews Yemenite Sephardim Bulgarian Moroccan Turkish Karaites Romaniotes Italkim Indian Cochin Bene Israel Bnei Menashe Bene Ephraim Ethiopian Beta Israel Falash Mura
Arabs	Arab Muslims Madani and Fellahin Bedouin Galilee Negev Arab Christians Druze¹ Lebanese
Other Semitic	Assyrians Samaritans Arameans² Maronites Lebanese
Other non-Semitic groups	African Americans Armenians Dutch Indians Russians Subbotniks Circassians Bosniaks Vietnamese
Foreign nationals	African-American Hebrews Chinese Filipinos Greeks Turks Kurds Palestinians Doms (Gypsy) Sudanese
¹ Druze have a status aparte from Muslim Arabs in Israel, since 1957. ² Arameans have a status aparte from Christian Arabs in Israel, since 2014.