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Some 20 percent of Israel's population. Primarily Muslim, but with some Christian communities.
A laborer works on an apartment building under construction in the Har Homa quarter in Jerusalem

Employment rate of Israeli-Arab population decreases during war, IDI report finds

 Micrograph of prostate cancer with Gleason score 6 (3+3)

Prostate cancer decreasing in Israeli Jews, rising for Arabs

 suleiman maswadeh on the foreground of Lights showing the words 365 days appear on Tel Aviv building to mark time since October 7 (illustrative)

'It's hard to be Arab in this country': Kan's Suleiman Maswadeh opens up on experiences post-Oct. 7

By Maya Gedesh
 Ceasarea, near Netanyahu's private residence - Hostage families and other protesters are commemorating the Jewish New Year around a dinner table with a table cloth that reads 'Let the old year and its abandonment come to an end'.

Majority of Israelis want war to end, 77% think bringing hostages home trumps toppling Hamas

 Standing Together Purple House.

Peace organization opens space for coexistence in Jerusalem

 Arab Israelis stage a mock funeral in Tel Aviv on August 6 to demonstrate against what they say is the government’s failure to address soaring levels of organized crime.

'Gov. abandons us to crime orgs.': Anger in Arab community following Ramle blast

By AVICHAY CHAIM
 Education Minister Yoav Kisch speaks at a conference of the Israeli newspaper "Makor Rishon", in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, March 19, 2024.

Education Ministry to introduce mandatory Hebrew tests for Israeli Arab students

 Top row, from left: Moran Samuel, Ian Seidenfeld, Guy Sasson and Ezra Frech. Bottom row, from left: Adam Berdichevsky, Mark Malyar, Asaf Yasur and Jody Schloss.

Ezra Frech, Ian Seidenfeld, Oct. 7 survivor, other athletes to watch at the 2024 Paris Paralympics

By Jacob Gurvis/JTA
 Soroka Medical center doctor, Muhammad Azzam, 34, was arrested for pledging allegiance to ISIS, August 22, 2024.

Israeli doctor who cared for wounded IDF soldiers pledges allegiance to ISIS

 THE ZAIDAT family, from the unrecognized village of Ramat Tziporim, has lived in the Negev for generations.

Struggle for land rights: Bedouin communities fight for recognition in Israel

Frontex’s Executive Director Hans Leijtens speaks to German and Greek border police during his visit at the border between Bulgaria and Turkey, near Kapitan Andreevo, Bulgaria, February 29, 2024.

Greece condemns attack on Arab-Israeli mistaken for a Jewish man

 ISRAELI AND Palestinian volunteers—mostly women—co-teach Hebrew to over 500 people a year through the Lissan organization.

The org. removing barriers by teaching Arab women Hebrew

By HOWARD BLAS
 Travelers are seen at the departure hall of the Ben Gurion International Airport on April 4, 2023

Quarter of Jewish Israelis , 40% of Arab Israelis contemplate emigration amid political crisis

 Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich at a conference of the Israeli newspaper "Makor Rishon", in Jerusalem, June 30, 2024.

Ben-Gvir 'totally failed' to curb 'internal threat of Arab Israelis,' Smotrich says

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett shakes hands with Ra’am Party leader Mansour Abbas in the Knesset plenum, in 2021.

It's time for Israel to have an Arab co-president

The Defense Ministry conducted cleaning and maintenance work at the graves of IDF soldiers ahead of Memorial Day 2023

Every Israeli, including both Jews and Arabs, is equal in life and death

 SOCIAL MEDIA star Nas Daily speaks onstage at the ADL’s ‘Never Is Now’ conference on antisemitism on social media, in New York yesterday.

'My primary goal in life is to make Israel better:' NAS Daily explains why he is Israeli first

 The area of ​​the Nova party where hundreds of Israelis were killed and kidnapped by Hamas terrorists who infiltrated to Israel, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, photo taken on October 12, 2023.

El Al humiliates Bedouin cop, who rescued dozens on Oct. 7, while he's advocating for Israel

By YOAV ETIEL