Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Arab Israelis, citizens of Israel of Arab descent.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Arab Israelis, citizens of Israel of Arab descent.
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Israel News Firm That Hid Cameras In Arab-Israeli Voting Sites Boasts Of Lowering Turnout
An Israeli public relations company headed by a settler leader boasted Wednesday that it was behind the Likud initiative to place 1,200 hidden cameras in Arab polling stations on Election Day. The firm added that it was to thank for the historically low turnout among Arab voters. “Thanks to us placing observers in every polling…
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Community Israel’s High-Tech Industry Must Learn From Its Hospitals
Jews and Arabs in Israel inhabit parallel worlds in almost every aspect of life. We reside in separate neighborhoods and towns, we have separate education systems, and for many of us, even our workplaces are homogeneous. But there are some areas in which things are different. In the public health system, for example, a saner…
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Fast Forward A Jew And An Arab Opened An Ice Cream Parlor Together…
Two Israelis — a Jew and an Arab — have created a chilly partnership — through ice cream. Adam Ziv, from a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee region of Israel, and Alaa Sweitat, from the nearby Arab village of Tarshiha, created Buza Ice Cream in 2012. Five years later, the pair have five ice cream parlors…
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Community Double and Triple-Marginalized, Trailblazing Arab Women Fight for Everyone
In March and April, women in the US and around the world marked Equal Pay Day, women’s history month, and International Women’s Day—testaments to the distance women’s issues have come, and the distance left to cover. Yet, for many minority populations, as it is for Arab women of Israel, the goals set and celebrated by…
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News As Israel’s Arab Home Demolitions Surge, A Non-Profit Group Proudly Takes Credit
A big row is brewing between Israeli Arab citizens and their government, and it all seems to stem from a surprisingly small activist source. The year 2017 began with protests as thousands of Arab citizens took to the streets to counter the demolitions of homes without permits in their neighborhoods. In Umm al-Hiran, a Bedouin…
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Opinion Why Do Israel’s Arabs Keep Playing by the Rules?
Israel has a Palestinian minority (17.5% of Israel’s citizens) hidden behind the enormous Palestinian question. Can a Palestinian Arab citizen be equal in Israel and identify with the state of and for Jews? Can an Arab be loyal while committed to the Palestinian people who are Israel’s active enemy? Can Jews and the state trust…
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Community What the Death of My Mother Taught Me About Charedi Jews and Arab Israelis
The plane was rapidly approaching Tel Aviv airport. Leafing through the newspapers distributed earlier by the flight attendant, I couldn’t escape the headlines. They were filled with reports about the latest violence erupting between the charedim and “secular” Jews, the tensions with the Arab-Israeli population, the dissatisfied immigrants from the former USSR and Ethiopia, the…
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Israel News WATCH: Benjamin Netanyahu Tries to Make Nice With Israeli Arabs
Israel’s Arab citizens won’t soon forget Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2015 Election Day warning about Arabs heading to the polls “in droves” as a way to shore up his right wing base. Now, 18 months later the prime minister is riffing on his own statement to try and make nice with Israeli Arabs, who make…
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Special Report At the kibbutz hit hardest on Oct. 7, a wrenching debate over how to rebuild
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