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Living in denial: the missing half of a mixed Arab-Jewish city

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Published: 21 August 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Nearly a quarter of the residents in Upper Nazareth, founded as a Jewish suburb of the Arab city below, are now Arab – yet it doesn’t have a single Arab school or Arabic on the municipality website

The squeezing of Arabic culture in an Israeli city (Haaretz)
Although street signs in Upper Nazareth are in Arabic as well as Hebrew, English and Russian, the municipal website is only in the latter three languages. There is an Arab deputy mayor but only six percent, at most, of municipal employees are Arab (Aug 20)

Photo: Upper Nazareth last week (Gil Eliahu)

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