It started with the TikTok of Palestinian youth, and escalated to an unprecedented exchange of fire between Hamas and Israel. This is not a classic war, because while the leaders take care to be protected and guarded, the residents of…
Category: Arabs in Israel
In the shadow of Israel’s nation-state law: The Left ducks
The first to take to the streets against the rising tide of anti-democratic legislation was the LGBT community on July 22, 2018. They protested the government’s surrogacy law that discriminates against gay men, raising the banner of equality and drawing…
Equality for Israel’s Arab citizens? Don’t hold your breath!
The Prime Minister’s Conference on Minorities, held on Oct. 29, 2013, was entitled “Growth in Partnership.” PM Binyamin Netanyahu and senior ministers took part, including the “brothers in arms” Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Economics Minister Naftali Bennett, as well…
On National Service for Arabs
FOR DECADES ISRAEL has justified the unequal status of its Arab citizens, who now compose 19% of the population (1.4 million), by pointing out that they do not serve in the army. This claim is easily dispelled. Many Bedouin do…
Health and the Arabs in Israel
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…
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…
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…
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…