Between Official Negligence and Popular Unawareness “The Palestinian minority in Israel has a shorter life span than the Jewish majority, is sicker, and has less access, physical and financial, to health services and health-supporting conditions (sanitation, water, electricity, roads).” The…
Tag: Arabs in Israel
“Future Vision”: Israel’s Arab Elite and Reality
TOWARD THE END of 2006 several Arab groups in Israel published documents seeking to redefine their people’s status and calling for an egalitarian (instead of a Jewish) state. Mossawa put out An Egalitarian Constitution for All. Adalah published The Democratic Constitution. The…
In Dixieland
IT WOULD APPEAR that the IDF Commander for the Central Region, headquartered at Bethel in the West Bank, wanted to come up with a creative gesture to aid us in remembering the late Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, Parks…
Take Your Family and Scram
IT WOULD APPEAR that the IDF Commander for the Central Region, headquartered at Bethel in the West Bank, wanted to come up with a creative gesture to aid us in remembering the late Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, Parks…
Artists and Workers Meet in Kufr Qara
In “BREAD AND ROSES,” a September art exhibit, the participating Arab and Jewish artists contributed 75% of their sales ($24,750 of $33,000) to a project called “Women and Work.” This is jointly run by the Workers Advice Center (WAC), Sindyanna…
Interview with Susan Nathan
Susan Nathan fulfilled a lifelong dream by immigrating to Israel from England in 1999 at the age of 50. She had grown up in a family of strong universal values. Israel was central to their lives. It was treasured as…
Arab Parties: Nervous but not united
IN the coming Israeli election, scheduled for March 28, 2006, the parties will have to garner 2% of the ballots in order to enter the Knesset. That will amount to about 80,000 votes, enough for three mandates. (A party enters…
Mediterranean Social Forum
FROM June 16 until June 19, 2005, social organizations and labor unions met in Barcelona within the framework of FSMED, the Mediterranean Social Forum. Several thousand took part. There were hundreds of workshops and activities. It was the first official…
Poverty: Meeting Ground for Arab & Jewish Women
The women in Tel Aviv and Nazareth seem at a glance to be poles apart. In Tel Aviv they dress to kill. They study and work in a wide range of fields. They go “out on the town” till the…
Still Landless in Zion
A historic decision!” So the media describe the position taken by Attorney General Meni Mazuz on January 27, 2005. Mazuz declared that the Israel Lands Authority (ILA) must market lands of the Jewish National Fund (JNF, known in Hebrew as…