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Long deprived of power in illegally built homes, Arabs hope change finally near

As unprecedented billions planned for under-served Arabs, devil’s in the details

Remote, fearful and suspicious: Why Israel’s Negev Bedouin remain unvaccinated

Opinion | Israel: Celebrate, Don't Fear, Your Arabness

Scarce Public Transportation Still Plagues Israeli Arab Towns, Survey Finds

How Do You Say 'Urban Renewal' in Arabic? In Israel, You Don't

Netanyahu Woos Surprise Demographic, Leading Others to Follow Suit

Sikkuy: Advancing Equality and a Shared Society for Arab and Jewish Citizens

Combatting Under-Policing in Arab Communities

No Monuments Will Be Toppled Here, but Jewish Israelis Need to Start Talking About Systemic Racism

Can the COVID-19 Crisis Become a Turning Point Toward a Shared Society in Israel?

Opinion | The Militarization of the Coronavirus Crisis, as Seen on Israeli TV

A More Equal and Shared Society is Possible: Meet the Most Optimistic Leftist in Israel

In Israeli-Arab City, Some Pushback Against Religious and Political Fundamentalism

Why Bibi Fears Arab Voters

‘Arab society not represented in Israeli education, causing alienation’

Why Arabic is flowering in Israel even as it’s officially demoted?

Israel's Airport Has Nearly No Signs in Arabic

IN RESPONSE TO NATION-STATE LAW: MASS ARABIC CLASS HELD IN TEL AVIV

Putting Israeli Arabs On The Front Burner

Palestinian's Land Day Is an Ongoing Injustice

Land Day Is an Ongoing Injustice

Results of our investigation: These are the family recreation sites that ignore Arab visitors

New Karmiel-Tel Aviv Train ‎Line To Open, With Access ‎For Israeli Arab Towns

How Have Some Arab High Schools Become Israel’s Top Performers?

Fact: You Can Convince Employers to Hire Arabs

The Industrial Zone in Menashe: Planning completed for the Iron Industrial Zone

For Israel's Jews and Arabs to Truly Coexist, This Is What Needs to Happen

Small Arab and Jewish Towns Team Up to Solve Big Problems

Education Ministry Reverses Itself over Veto of Arabic Dictionarie

Celebrating Ramadan in Umm al-Fahm

Bedouin Children Need Preschools

Israel's Campaign Against Arabic

After one year, index sees increase in media representation of Arab citizens

Israeli Arab Representation on TV Talk Shows Shot Up in 2016

Public Campaign to Increase Arab Voices in the Media Makes Its Mark

Amid Flames and Suspicions in Israel, Acts of Jewish-Arab Cooperation

No Time to Wait: Economic Discrimination Against Arab Towns Must Be Fixed Immediately

'When the Media Doesn't Talk to Arabs, Coverage of Them Is Negative'

Israel Failing in Coexistence, Anti-racism Education, State Comptroller Says

A New Vision For The Secular Left: How Do We Need To Change Ourselves In Order To Change Reality In Israel?

"As Arab Citizens We Feel That Our Security Is Less Important To the State"

Why Are So Few Arabs Interviewed on Israeli TV?

Israel Takes Action on Improving Arabs’ Lives

While Police Tackle Arab Inciters, Are Jews Given a Free Pass?

Tearing Down Before Building Up

A New and Important Experience For The Israeli Prime-Time Spectator

Small Arab and Jewish Towns Team Up to Solve Big Problems

The Israelis and Palestinians who Work Together in Peace

Getting Beyond Stereotypes on Israeli TV News

The Beduin Children Can’t Wait

Israel's Hottest New Tradition: Ramadan Tours

For Jewish Israelis yearning to get to know their neighbors, activities surrounding this month’s fasting and feasting are becoming a thriving business.

Ramadan Tours in Israel Give Boost to Arab Tourism

The Representation Index

Ramadan nights

Perhaps efforts by Shared Tourism, can serve as a model for the shared society we must continue to strive toward.

Month of Ramadan Initiatives Strengthen Jewish-Arab Relations

Activists Use Carrot, Stick to Get Arab Voices Into Hebrew Press

In the shadow of Sarona attack, Jews and Muslims unite for Ramadan

Initiative brings Israelis to Arab homes during Islamic holy month to break fast, bread and sow the seeds of friendship

After Decades of Neglect, Israel Promotes Planning and Construction in Arab Sector

A Tour of the Galilee Offers All Manner of Treats

Campaign to Increase Israeli Arab Commentators In The Media Seen As Success

Arab Citizens Involved in 59 Percent of Murders in Israel

'Ramadan Nights' Tours of Israeli Arab Villages to Take Place During Ramadan

Found in Translation: Arabic Language Wins Unexpected Approval in Knesset

Is the Israeli Media Responding to Pressure on Under Representation of Arabs?

Israel Faces Up to Arab Inequality as Its Growth Stalls

Only 2% of interviewees in Israeli media are Arab, new index finds

Why Morocco can be a model for Jewish-Arab partnership

After Groundbreaking Report, More Arab Experts on Israeli Television

Four ways Jews and Arabs live apart in Israeli society

Land Day: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow

How should we respond to a survey supporting removal of Israeli-Arabs?

New Research Reveals the Underrepresentation of Arabs in the Israeli Media

Study: Arabs underrepresented in Hebrew media

Strong Israeli Reactions After Study Finds Support for Arab Expulsion

Israelis grapple with Pew finding of support for Arab expulsion

Not just cinema, but also theatre - a new first for Arab children in Israel

Government tenders should encourage companies to hire Arabs

Do You Want To Encourage Employment of Arabs? Give ‎Preference in Government Tenders to Those Who Employ ‎Them

Economic equality is an unconditional right

Behind the Headlines – Democracy in Crisis? Minority Rights

Why we need to put our chips behind people-to-people work

Father Leads Drive to Get Arabic-dubbed Films Into Israeli Cinemas

Sikkuy – The Association for the Advancement of Civic Equality in Israel, which helped publicize the “Minions” screenings on various social network sites, told Haaretz: “It may seem like a small step for equality, but it is also of great significance. Suddenly, the movie theaters in Kfar Sava became a shared space for Jews and Arabs, where Arabic and Arab citizens have a real and respected place. It’s also a real achievement in light of the gap in resources, because although there’s still no movie theater in Tira or any other Arab city in the area, the option of coming to see a film with the children has finally become open to thousands of families. Above all, when such a struggle succeeds, it proves there’s still hope, and that things can be changed – even in difficult times when words of hatred come from the most senior levels of government.”

‘This shows it is possible to transform Israel into a just society’: Ron Gerlitz on the Arab Economic Development Plan

Partnership With Its Arab Citizens Will Determine Israel's Future

The win-win plan to advance the Arab sector

A government “arnona” (municipal property tax) fund will reduce gaps

The murder of women in Arab society – a national emergency

Israeli media must ensure equal representation for all

The Civil Service Commission resumes publishing reports: The state has failed to integrate Arabs into the public sector

"The continual increase in the percentage of Arab employees in the Civil Service, from 6.2 percent in 2007 to 9.3 percent in 2014, is worthy of mention, although the target that the government set for itself for 2012 is being achieved after a two-year delay," Attorney Samah Alkhatib-Ayoub, a research coordinator and advocacy specialist in the Equality Policy Department of Sikkuy-the Association for the Advancement of Civic Equality, told Calcalist.

Study: Only 1% of Israeli Jews Can Read a Book in Arabic

The Other Palestinians - On Sikkuy co-directors' visit to North America

Rabin’s legacy: A government inclusive of all citizens — not only Jews

Uneasy Arab-Israeli Coexistence Threatened By Violence

Collective Punishment: Arabs in Israel Face the Sack Because They're Arabs

Israeli Arabs Caught Between Their Pocketbooks and Their Hearts

Ron Gerlitz: "Yes, the racist extreme right is afraid. They would like the Arabs to go back to being manual laborers"

As parents demand secure schools, Arab staff eyed suspiciously

Israeli Towns Move to Ban Arab Workers From Schools

Israel’s Jews and Arabs Must Overcome Mutual Fear

Interview with Rawnak Natour

All the new appointments that you should know about - Rawnak Natour

Israeli Universities Still Failing Arab Students When It Comes to Inclusion

What Israel can do today for economic equality

Israeli Arab towns have very few daycare centers

Jewish tourists in Arab towns: It’s no dream

ISRAEL’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE

Arabs flock, but not to the Civil Service

Criticism of absence of Arab representative on the search committee for the president of Haifa University

As Israeli Arabs Get Stronger, the Right Goes on the Offensive

Confronting Old Wounds, Ramadan Ttours Promote Coexistence

Ramadan Tours Promote Coexistence Between Israeli Arabs and Jews

Why there are no daycare centers in Arab towns

In the absence of a joint organized effort by the government ministries to deal with the planning barriers and the shortage of public land, the underutilization of the substantial budgets by Arab Local Authorities will continue.

Israel's Hottest New Tradition: Ramadan Tours

Experience Ramadan in Nazareth Through A Unique Tour Opportunity

Arabs in Wadi Ara warn: “If it won’t be good for us, it won’t be good for you, and that’s not a threat”

The Arab woman’s stone ceiling

The Sad Truth in Bennett's Claim About Rampant Crime in Arab Towns

Haifa Theater Arablanguage ads riddled with mistakes

Arab women want to go to work – but have no way to get there

Protests against exclusion of Arabs in child welfare conference win out

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Fighting discrimination

"As a result, in Arab towns, 78% of arnona tax revenues are from households, compared to a nationwide average of 34%, according to a study by Injaz Center for Professional Arab Local Governance and Sikkuy – the Association for the Advancement of Civic Equality."

New signs at bus stops: not in Arabic

Haifa’s at your service – if you speak Hebrew

"Arabic-speaking residents said the city told them that the services pamphlet wasn’t published in that language. Shutafut-Sharakah, the Organizations for Shared, Democratic and Equal Society, has written City Hall, seeking to correct the matter. "

Three-way coexistence for Christmas

Conferences, meetings and long-range plans: not everyone is giving up on the shared future

The plight of Israel’s struggling Arab minority comes to Pittsburgh Read more: The Jewish Chronicle - The plight of Israel s struggling Arab minority comes to Pittsburgh

What is it like to be an Arab worker in Israel?

Dismissal without a hearing, silencing, trampling of rights – that's what male and female Arab workers are facing in Israeli society in the months following Operation Protective Edge. How can we fight this ugly racism?

Dismissal for narrative reasons

Overcrowding, lack of classrooms in Arab education system

Jerusalem teachers warn of increase in racism after Gaza war

The Interior Ministry's criterion for distributing money among the local authorities: nationality

The backlash against Arab integration

Why Palestinian citizens of Israel are no longer safe

The Gaza effect: In shaky economy, Arab businesses hit hardest

Not just escalation: A frightening new era of Jewish-Arab relations in Israel

Jewish Israelis have no monopoly on victimhood and pain

The Fast and Feast of Ramadan Tel Aviv Table Podcast

A city of 21,000 with one bus line that makes 62 trips a day

“Ir Habahadim” (IDF Central Training Facility in the Negev) – "The Jews are dividing things fairly among themselves, and leaving out the Bedouin "

Lapid continues to discriminate against the Arabs

How Israeli Arabs can achieve a just distribution of resources

The correlation between Arab economic power and attacks by the Right

Deputy Budget Director: finance ministry weighs reapportioning government property tax payments

In Israel, Arabs get less

In Israel, Arabs get less

Treasury official: Gov't funding biased against Arabs

FULL-PAGE AD IN HAARETZ

The Arabs’ Growing Economic Power Draws Fire

Arab literature is also Israeli

Does equality stand a chance?

For Arab citizens, Israeli government suffers from split personality

Bedouin leaders: We will die for our land

The government agencies ignore you? Meet the 11 most promising young public servants in Israel

48 Human Beings were Massacred—and We Have Forgotten Them

Arab Israelis Shut Out of Tech Boom

Bill legalizing preferential treatment for Israeli soldiers goes to the Knesset

Discrimination against Israeli Arabs still rampant, 10 years on

Arab-Jewish industrial parks: The last chance for economic equality?

Land, my land: One issue that can be resolved

A paradise for Jews only

Jewish towns get up to 14 times more buses than Arab counterparts, report finds

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A dangerous position

Next stop, in Arabic

Arabs, the Israeli civil service needs you

On My Mind: Boosting Arab employment

Executives, hire Arab workers

It's time to make Israel's Arabs visible

Jewish donors can influence Israel's war on Arabic

Israeli banks won't lend to us, say Arab developers at groundbreaking conference

Dreams of integration

NIF asks: Is Israeli democracy at risk?

Exclusive to Calcalist: 80 percent of the housing tenders in the Arab communities fail

Encouraging news on Jewish-Arab ties

Arab social justice needs heard by the gov't-what about J14?

Eat All You Want on the Ramadan Breakfast Tour in Northern Israel

Housing for Arabs Too

Racism in the Yellow Pages: we are all responsible

Close the Ministry for Arab Affairs

Time to turn a page

'Stop for a second and think'

A call to battle

UK Task Force interview: Sikkuy

'Jewish Israel donations must be split equally among Arabs'

The view from the hilltops

A frightened nation invents ways to commit suicide

The plans to revoke citizenship

Report: Arab children shortchanged by social services

Civic watchdog: Jews get better legal aid services than Arabs

From Barriers to Opportunities - 4.8.2010

They’re destroying citizens, too

Report: Much-needed tax money funneled away from Arab towns

The illusion of assistance to the Arabs in Israel

Joint Jewish-Arab initiatives revitalize neighbor relations in Wadi Ara

The flip side of charity

The Jewish majority benefits at the expense of the Arab minority

The State discriminates against Arab local authorities

NGO's Jewish-Arab index: socioeconomic gaps growing

sikkuy equality index - November 18th 2009

In praise of full equality

The cry of a persecuted minority

Appoint Arab judges

Strangers in their own land

The Bedouin do not represent a threat to the periphery

Racist legislation is bad for public relations. And what about humaneness?

When fear fuels the discrimination

Stopping racism

In sickness and in health

Repairing past injustices

The politics of hatred

The disqualification is a basic erosion of Israel’s democracy

Umm al-Fahm invites Jews ahead of rightist rally

The Parade of the Right: Legal but Odious

The facts speak for themselves

Don't put life in Acre back on track

Ensuring them their rightful share

Study: Israeli Jews live nearly 4 years longer than Israeli Arabs

The 'nations test'

Introducing Arab Industrial Areas

Boycotts aren't the answer

Local Arab government: A chronic crisis demands immediate intervention

The Or Commission laid to rest

Arabs here to stay

Fair education for all

The government discriminates against Arab communities

Citizenship for Jews only?

Report: Majority of Israeli Arabs are not part of labor force

Study: Israeli Jews live four years longer than Israeli Arabs

Commission of Inquiry needed to study discrimination against Israeli Arabs

Israeli-Arab test case

Arab and Jewish municipal heads in the Wadi Ara region are attempting to create a stable civilian foundation in their area as a fair basis for coexistence. They cooperate for the sake of equal development in the areas of industry, tourism, and the environment. As part of the joint forum's activity, and with the support of outgoing Tourism Minister Herzog, officials at the Arab-Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm worked last week on a project that would turn the peak of Mount Alexander, located within the town's boundaries, into a tourism site that draws visitors. For the government, this project offers two opportunities: Both for economic development (as opposed to relaying on the welfare system) and for fulfilling its duty to serve all Israeli citizens regardless of their religion or ethnicity. However, very soon the tourism portfolio will be handed over to the Israel Our Home party. Will the new minister thwart this tourism project? During the pre-election campaign, Israel Our Home leader Lieberman engaged in debate regarding the de-legitimization of Arab-Israel citizenship. Several months ago he even managed to enter the coalition through the "strategic threats" window of opportunity. The prime minister made clear back then that Israel Our Home joining the government does not change its basic lines, including the participation of Arab citizens in any development plan. Now, the government presence of Israel Our Home is expanding beyond the "strategic threats" arena to responsibility for developing economic growth ventures. Therefore, Olmert's test is to prove that Israel Our Home's presence in the government would not undermine the policy adopted in the past year of promoting the development of Arab communities. The burden of proof is on Olmert now to show that when it comes to Umm al-Fahm and other Arab communities, his government indeed intends to promote growth ventures. Compelling challenge Symbolically, the Mount Alexander peak in Umm al-Fahm offers a good observation point to the beach in Caesarea to the West and to the Jezreel Valley on the east. If one turns around one can notice to the south both Jenin and the Samaria mountains in the West Bank. However, the choice made by town residents and their Jewish neighbors is unequivocal: The point of view, as well as the joint construction, is in the direction of the State of Israel, with all the implications this entails. This angle was also seen by the many visitors who in the past weekend visited the modern art gallery in Umm al-Fahm and walked around and ate in town after the exhibition was inaugurated. This angle is the determining factor and it conveys no doubt when it comes to Arab citizens belonging to the State of Israel, or the State's duty to invest in them. Will this be the point of view also adopted by the Tourism Ministry in Jerusalem under Minister Esterina Tartman? If the development venture on Mount Alexander will continue to enjoy the sympathy of ministry economists, we would be able to say that in this case at least the government met the test. The challenge is serious and compelling. We can just hope that the government's investment in Israeli Arabs won't be again directed to Isaac Herzog – this time in his new post of welfare minister. Yet there's nothing to worry about: Even in his new post, Herzog has plenty of work awaiting him in closing the gaps between Arab and Jewish communities. The writer is the co-director of Sikkuy, the Association for the Advancement of Civic Equality in Israel

Let's see you be an Arab for a week

Trampling its own laws

Money not only for Jews

After the war, equality between Arabs and Jews should be rehabilitated

He totally ignores the Arab citizens

Yes, this is Zionism

Beware demographic hysteria

U.S. Jewish community's new mission: Equality between Israeli Jews and Arabs

Entering turbulent waters, U.S. Jews launch task force to aid Israeli Arabs

Report: Arab representation still lacking

Not enough

Group fights for equal rights for Israeli Arabs

Jews and Arabs pin tourism hopes on Wadi Ara Trail

The Herzliya Conference for delegitimization

Don’t vote for racism

Gov’t assailed for underrepresentation of Arabs, Muslims

Still discriminated against

Delegation: Improve Israeli Arabs’ Status

AJCommittee guests hold controversial meeting with Umm al-Fahm mayor

From them, we’re not disengaging

Time to rescue the discourse

It’s time to disengage from discrimination too

Wadi Ara mayors plan trade zone

A good neighbor program for Jews and Arabs

Share and share alike

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