I believe Yazbeck may be Jewish like this Yazbek... https://www.jewage.org/wiki/en/Article:David_Yazbek_-_Biography#:~:text=Yazbek%20was%20born%20to%20a,the%20piano%20as%20a%20teenager. Or this Yazbeck... https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/natacha-yazbeck/ Or this Yazbek... https://il.linkedin.com/in/layan-yazbek-20025467 Didn't he grow up in Canada and spend most of his life there? Either way, you'd probably have to find his mom's last name to know his religious affiliation for sure, but lately I definitely see certain religious affiliation overrides any nationality.