Tag: Israeli Arabs
Ben-Gvir orders police to prepare for widespread Arab rioting
Amid fighting on Israel's southern and northern borders, as well as ongoing attempts to open a front in Judea and Samaria, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Wednesday said his ministry was preparing for...
Ayman Odeh and coalitions of hate
On Dec. 9, MK Ayman Odeh met in New York with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The meeting was arranged by the PLO’s mission to the U.N. Odeh heads the Hadash Party and is...
Report: Lapid rules out cooperation with ‘extremists’ Otzma Yehudit, Ra’am
In an apparent about-face, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid ruled out on Wednesday the possibility of forming a coalition with the far-right Otzma Yehudit and Islamist Ra’am parties for the Nov. 1 elections.
Speaking at...
Israel could be ‘between Gedera and Hadera’ in a few years, warns country’s defense...
In the closed portion of a Blue and White Party faction meeting last week, Defense Minister Benny Gantz read out a WhatsApp message that had gone viral across the country, containing threats by anonymous,...
Poll: 75% of Arab citizens believe Jews have no right to sovereignty in Israel
Three-quarters of Arab Israelis believe Jews have no right to sovereignty in the country, according to a recent study by Israeli NGO Habithonistim–Protectors of Israel.
When asked where their loyalties would lie in case of...
Most Israeli Arabs believe voting in Israel’s next election is important, says survey
Eighty-four percent of Israeli Arabs agree that it is important to vote in the next Israeli election, and more than three fifths are optimistic about conditions for the sector improving in the future, according...
‘Revolution’ taking place among Arab sector in Israel, report shows
The Arab sector in Israel is modernizing, according to Nasreen Haddad Haj-Yahya, director of the Arab Society in Israel program at the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI).
Haj-Yahya is co-author of a new report—the Annual Statistical...
Hundreds arrested in months-long operation to rein in Arab-sector crime
Following three months of intensive efforts to rein in crime in the Arab sector, senior Israel Police officials said on Tuesday that 98 Arab Israeli criminals from three crime organizations had been taken off...
Mansour Abbas is leading a sea change for Israel’s Arabs
Just a few weeks ago, Knesset member Mansour Abbas—the head of Israel’s Ra’am Party—said it’s time for his countrymen to accept Israel’s Jewish identity.
His remarks were met with outrage—both from Arabs inside Israel and...
Shin Bet to help collect intelligence on illegal firearm possession in Arab sector
Israeli Police Commander Jamal Hakrush, a senior Arab-Israeli officer in charge of fighting crime in the Arab sector, said on Tuesday that the Shin Bet intelligence agency would collect data on Arab citizens in...