The Legal Status Of The Arabs In IsraelThis study examines how the Israeli legal system copes with two major issues. The first is the tension between the constitutional definition of Israel as both a Jewish state and a democracy committed to equal rights for all of its citizens. The second issue is the delicate position of a national minority in a state that since its establishment has been involved in a bitter conflict with the Palestinian nation to which that minority belongs. |
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Constitutional Implications | |
Citizenship and Population Registration | |
Control of Land | |
The Problem of Discrimination | |
Overt and Covert Discrimination | |
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