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Abstract
This paper discusses the attachment of people living in six Druse and mixed settlements in western Galilee to their settlements and environment. The paper focuses on description and analysis of the human, social, physical and environmental attributes of the attachment to settlement in relation to the self-determination and personal identity of the subjects. It does so by means of a sample of subjects who were asked, inter alia, to mark the intensity of their emotional attachment to their settlement and the region, the degree of their satisfaction from the development level, the population level, the quality of the atmosphere and social relations, the style and quality of life, the quality of the environment, the natural and human landscape, the level of personal security, the quality of the municipal services, the economic feasibility and readiness to remain in the settlement and the region and not emigrate to another settlement or region.