Meet Druze leaders changing Israel for the better Inshirah Sgayar Shannan, senior obstetrician at Galilee Medical Center When Inshirah Sgayar finished high school in the traditional Druze village of Yarka about 20 years ago, most of her friends headed for marriage and motherhood. “I felt I was meant to do something else,” she tells ISRAEL21c. She entered the University of Haifa intending to become a teacher. Then she switched to psychology. During master’s studies, however, a physiology course inspired her to apply to the Technion medical school. She graduated in 2010. “Being the first female medical student in my village was like saying I was going to the moon,” she says. “But I felt a cosmic pull to be a model for change, and my parents supported me.” Another outside-the-box decision was to marry a Druze man from a different village — lawyer Mahmoud Shannan, CEO of the Druze Heritage Center in Israel. They live in Hurfeish, near the Lebanese border, with their four boys aged 10 to one year old. Sgayar Shannan is now a senior physician in the fetal-maternal medicine unit and delivery room of Galilee Medical Center, treating Muslim, Bedouin, Druze, Christian and Jewish women. ?? IF YOU LOVE ISRAEL - SHARE NEWSRAEL! ?? Source: Israel21C.org