Draft:Kamal Mansour

Kamal Mansour (1931 – March 22, 2024) was an Israeli Druze who served as advisor on Arab Affairs to the President of Israel. He received the Israeli Presidential Medal as well as the Israel Prize. Mansour died on March 22, 2024.

Mansour was born in Isfiya to Sheikh Najib Mansour, head of the Isfiya local council. In his youth, the family lived in Daliyat al-Karmel. In 1950 Mansour studied at the American University of Beirut. When he asked to return to Israel, the Lebanese authorities forbade it and he stole the border to Israel. Later, he studied at the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Hebrew University.

Between the years 1956-1986, he served as the commissioner of information among Arabs in northern Israel on behalf of the information center.