Kisra-Sumei
Kisra-Sumei is a town and local council in the western Galilee in the Northern District of Israel. In it had a population of. In April 2019, 95% of the population were Israeli Arabs of the Druze community, with a small Christian minority. The town has a Druze holy place as well as a statue to the Druze leader and Syrian nationalist revolutionary Sultan al-Atrash.
The town is the result of a merger between the villages of Kisra and Sumei and it was recognised as a local council in 1990.
History
Kafr Sumei is identified with the late ancient village of Caparasima, mentioned in John Moschus' Spiritual Meadow, a Byzantine ascetic writing dating from the 7th century.Kisra appears on the 1870s SWP map. In the connected memoirs, Conder and Kitchener mention the village as "containing about 150 Druzes", and note in terms of archaeological remains "foundations and heaps of well-cut stones".