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| March 9, 2015
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Arab Legislator Ahmed Tibi, calls Israel’s Foreign Minister “Jewish ISIS.”

Former diplomats condemn Yisrael Beytenu chairman Liberman for suggesting disloyal Israeli Arabs should have their heads removed.

By LAHAV HARKOV

 

Former diplomats and intellectuals came out against Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman Monday, a day after he called to decapitate Israeli Arabs who are “against us.”

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks to the press before the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. – Photo: EMIL SALMAN/POOL

“Whoever is with us should get everything,” the Yisrael Beytenu chairman said in a speech at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya Sunday. “Whoever is against us, there’s nothing else to do. We have to lift up an axe and remove his head, otherwise we won’t survive here.” Continue Reading »

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| January 23, 2015
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Israel Economy Minister Boosts Arab Hi-Tech Employment In $2.5 million Training Program

Economy Ministry has enacted strategic goal to expand hi-tech employment among Israel’s Arabs, especially the women.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett this week awarded tenders totaling $2.5 million to two organizations tasked with training and integrating more local Arabs into the hi-tech industry.

Arab women in high-tech

The two companies, Tsofen and ITworks, will examine hi-tech manpower needs around the country, and accordingly train and provide job placement services for Arab hi-tech students.

“There is a skilled and high-quality workforce in Israel in the form of hundreds of male and female academics from the Arab, Druze and Circassian sectors, available for employment,” said Michal Tzuk, deputy director-general at the Ministry of Economy.

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| December 9, 2014
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No one makes notice that Arabs are moving into Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem

Int’l media, in maintaining their double standard, ignore how middle-class Arab families are steadily moving to the Pisgat Ze’ev, French Hill & Neveh Ya’acov neighborhoods of ‘Jewish’ Jerusalem for cheaper rent & better municipal services.

By REUTERS

 

Little noticed amid the furor over one of Israel’s most contentious policies, a small but growing number of Arabs are moving into Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem, drawn by cheaper rent and better services.

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A view of Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus -Photo: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM

For decades, Israel has encouraged Jews to settle in east Jerusalem, changing the population balance, provoking Palestinian anger and drawing international condemnation.

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| November 17, 2014
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Arab citizens strongly object to the ‘Jewish State’ bill, but many Druse show support

 

Just hours after PM Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his support for the bill, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni postponed the Ministerial Committee for Legislation’s vote at the last minute.

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON

 

Arabs strongly oppose an initiative giving Israel’s status as a Jewish state legal weight or removing the status of Arabic as an official language, seeing it as an anti-Arab move that is against democratic values.

Jewish and arab at Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem

Jewish and Arab customers at a Rami Levy supermarket in Jerusalem. – Photo: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) postponed the Ministerial Committee for Legislation’s vote at the last minute on Sunday, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his support for the bill. Continue Reading »

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| November 15, 2014
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Muslim & Druze riot over kaffiyeh dispute in Galilee town

After 41 hurt in overnight riots, Israel Police deployed to Abu Snan to prevent further violence in wake of disagreement at local high-school and then further ‘disagreements’ expressed online.

By Hassan Shaalan

 

Tensions continued to mount Saturday evening in the village of Abu Snan a mere day after 41 Israelis were hurt in heavy clashes between Druze and Muslims Arabs. Police forces have deployed to the area fearing another flare-up in riots sparked by a dispute between local students.

Muslim, Druze confrontations in Abu Snan

Muslim, Druze confrontations in Abu Snan

Residents said that in midweek two Muslim students entered the Abu Snan high school wearing kaffiyehs and were confronted by two Druze students who asked them to remove the scarves. Continue Reading »

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| October 1, 2014
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Poll: 24% of Israeli Jews boycott Arab businesses

Globes reported that latest survey finds 51% of respondents would boycott businesses that employ people who criticize the IDF.

 

Nearly a quarter of Israeli Jewish consumers are boycotting Arab businesses, a poll released on Tuesday found.

The market in Nazareth.

The market in Nazareth, July 9, 2014. – Photo: Eyal Toueg

Some 24 percent of respondents said they refuse to patron Arab shops, down from 47 percent during a similar Geocartography poll conducted during the Gaza war, Globes reported.

However, the figures should be taken with a grain of salt: According to the poll, only 29 percent of respondents said they did in fact boycott Arab businesses during the war, meaning that 18 percent out of the 47 percent polled during the hostilities between Israel and the Palestinian factions in Gaza did not abide by their professed convictions.

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| September 21, 2014
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Israeli-Arab high-tech incubator acquires $4.5 million

 

Most Israel’s Arabs who study technology become teachers since only 2% land jobs with Jewish employers.

By NIV ELIS

 

Takwin Labs, an incubator for Arab Israeli high-tech entrepreneurs focused on Internet and Mobile technologies, announced Sunday that it closed $4.5 million in funding.

THE TEL AVIV skyline; the area around the city is home to many Israeli start-ups

THE TEL AVIV skyline; the area around the city is home to many Israeli start-ups. – Photo: REUTERS

The Haifa-based Takwin, which means “beginning” in Arabic, was spun off from several leaders already active in the Arab Israeli High-tech space: Imad Telhami, whose company Babcom is one of the largest employers of Arab engineers in Israel,  Labor MK Erel Margalit, who founded Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), and Chemi Peres, Chairman Al Bawader, a VC that invests in Arab start-ups (and son of former President Shimon Peres). Continue Reading »

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| July 1, 2014
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2 Pro-Israel Arab Boys Under Threat, Now Looking for Safe Houses Abroad

Concerned Zionists are are working to find Yihya Mahmeed & Mohammad Zoabi,  safe houses where they can remain protected.

By Gil Ronen

 

Concerned Zionists are are working to place two courageous Muslim youths from Israel, Mohammad Zoabi and Yihya Mahmeed, in safe environments – after they expressed opinions sympathetic to the abducted Jewish teens and became targets of hatred in the radical Muslim community.

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2 Brave Pro-Israel Arab Boys: Yihya Mahmeed ( left) & Mohammad Zoabi (right)

Zoabi received much media attention after he posted a video on Facebook expressing his concern for the three teen hostages. Mahmeed uploaded a picture of himself to Facebook, with a large Israeli flag and a sign saying “#Bring Back Our Boys.” Continue Reading »

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| April 8, 2014
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16 yr-old Muslim Zionist Angers Cousin Anti-Zionist MK Hanin Zoabi

Incredibly ‘wise beyond his years’ interview:

Stating eloquently that Israeli Arabs should be thankful for the Jewish state, Muhammad Zoabi, 16, angers his famous cousin, who’s a staunch pro-Palestinian leader an Member of the Israel Knesset.

By Gil Ronen

 

Muhammad Zoabi, 16, an Arab Muslim from Nazareth, is causing anger in Muslim circles, and considerable joy in Jewish ones, by stating in a unique interview that he is a Zionist and loves the state of Israel.

“I really believe that I’m a lucky Arab and a lucky human being and a lucky Middle Eastern[er] that I was born in this little tiny piece of land!”, Continue Reading »

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| March 25, 2014
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REPORT: Israeli Arab Population exchange to future Palestine legal under int’l law

According to Foreign Minister Lieberman’s legal study, moving Israel’s border would require agreement of the Palestinians, can not leave individuals without citizenship & would require a mechanism for compensation.

 

 

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman received a few weeks ago a classified legal opinion that paves the way for making Arab areas of Israel part of a future Palestinian state.

Avigdor Lieberman

The document’s authors concluded that the move would comply with international law on condition that it were done with the consent of the Palestinians, did not leave anyone without citizenship and included a mechanism for providing compensation, similar to the one used with Jewish settlers during Israel’s 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip.

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| March 23, 2014
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Chechnyan President opens new $10m mosque in Israel

At inauguration of new mosque, Mayor of Arab Israeli town of Abu Ghosh, outside of Jerusalem, tells president of Chechnya that some of the villagers can trace their ancestry to 16th century Chechnya & the Caucas region.

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The president of Russia’s republic of Chechnya has inaugurated a new, $10 million mosque in an Arab village in Israel.

Residents of the Arab Israeli town of Abu Ghosh wave the Chechen flag

Residents of the Arab Israeli town of Abu Ghosh wave the Chechen flag during the dedication ceremony the new Akhmad Kadyrov mosque, on March 23 2014.- Photo: AFP

Ramzan Kadyrov said on Sunday that it was an honor to visit “this good and holy land” during a stop in the village of Abu Ghosh.

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| February 9, 2014
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IDF reports increase in Israeli Christian recruits

Even though there are only about 300 Christian Arabs serving in the IDF, 84 of them signed up in the last half of 2013, which is 3 times the average rate.

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The past six months have seen a significant rise in the number of Arab Christians joining the Israel Defense Forces, although their number is still minuscule. The actions of people within the Arab Christian community to integrate their members into Israeli society may be behind the rise – actions that raise the ire of many others, who believe that army service is intended to strike a blow at Palestinian unity.

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| January 19, 2014
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Arabs Proudly Serve in the Israel Defense Force

As it turns out, Israeli Arabs & other Arabic speaking minorities in Israel, proudly & unabashedly speak of their service in the Israeli army.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Israel is often portrayed, even from within, as racist and hateful toward Arabs. Naturally, there couldn’t be any Arabs serving in the Israeli army, and certainly none proudly doing so.

Arabs Proudly Serve in Israeli Army

Mona Lisa Abdo, proud to have served (in a combat unit) in the IDF – Photo courtesy: Screenshot

Not so! The reality is that many thousands of Arabs and Arabic-speakers are not only Israeli soldiers, but outspoken advocates of both the IDF and the Jewish state they serve. Continue Reading »

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| January 7, 2014
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Israeli Arabs: We Refuse to Live in a Palestinian State

If the Arab Knesset members are so worried about becoming citizens of a Palestinian state, they should be working toward integration into, and not separation from, Israel, and listening more to their constituents rather than the voices of Fatah and Hamas.

by Khaled Abu Toameh

 

 

Renewed talk of land swaps between Israel and a future Palestinian state has left many Israeli Arabs worried about losing their status as citizens of Israel.

Member of Knesset Ahmed Tibi yells from the Knesset podium. (Image source: Knesset TV YouTube channel)

 

According to the Israeli daily Ma’ariv, Israel has proposed to the Americans transferring Israeli Arab communities to the Palestinian Authority as part of a land swap that would place Jewish settlements in the West Bank under Israeli sovereignty. Continue Reading »

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| September 21, 2013
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30,000 Arabs attend annual Islamic movement rally in Umm al-Fahm

 

Thousands of Israeli Muslim Arabs attend annual ‘Al-Aqsa Mosque in Danger’ rally sponsored by the northern branch of Islamic Movement.

This year, the rally was also dedicated to Egyptian struggle, bearing Morsi’s picture, pro-Brotherhood signs

By Hassan Shaalan

Some 30,000 Arab Israelis took part Friday in a rally titled “Al-Aqsa Mosque in Danger,” in the northern town of Umm al-Fahm. The event was organized by the northern branch of the Islamic Movement.

‘Al-Aqsa Mosque in Danger.’ at Umm al-Fahm protest

Pro-Morsi, Brotherhood sign

Attendees were waving Palestinian flags, crying out “We will sacrifice our lives for Al-Aqsa.”

This year, participants were also expressing their support of the Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. Continue Reading »

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