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MK Yoav Segalovitz attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset on October 20, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 3, 2026, 10:37 am
Segalovitz will only join Ra’am if it recognizes Israel as a Jewish state
MK Yoav Segalovitz’s vision of shared destiny hinges on Mansour Abbas. If successful, he could prove the Arab party he joins is more Zionist than the ultra-Orthodox
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys, pupils at the Poalei Menahem Talmud Torah school, in the Beitar Illit settlement on September 4, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
September 2, 2025, 5:45 am
Majority of religious Jewish Israelis averse to their kids mixing with Arabs — survey
Many Jewish parents don’t want their children to learn Arabic, take part in mixed summer camps, or be taught by Arab teachers, while most Arab Israelis do not share their qualms
By Sue Surkes
Ari’el Stachel is the writer and star of 'Out of Character,' a one-man show running at the Berkshire Theatre Group's Unicorn Theater in Stockbridge, Massachusetts until July 26, 2025. (Clean Carlough via JTA)
July 14, 2025, 2:46 am
‘Arab Jewish’ actor Ari’el Stachel has a message about antisemitism for Zohran Mamdani
Starring in a new one-man show, the Tony Award-winning Ashkenazi-Yemeni-Israeli-American performer has become increasingly vocal about Jew hatred and the complexities of Jewish identity
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Jack and Adria Abu Shehadeh in Hilweh Market, a carefully curated boutique of handcrafted Palestinian items in Jaffa (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
July 3, 2021, 11:01 am
In Jaffa, battered by ethnic unrest, locals unsure whether the scars can heal
Despite claims of coexistence, Jews and Arabs in Jaffa say longstanding issues need to be resolved in seaside city
By Jessica Steinberg
Heba Nabil Iskandarani said a 'deep addiction for belonging made me look deeper into my family history.' (Courtesy of Iskandarani/ via JTA)
September 24, 2020, 8:57 pm
Palestinian refugee gets Spanish citizenship after discovering Jewish roots
Heba Nabil Iskandarani had been technically stateless her entire life, then she found her Palestinian father had Sephardi heritage
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Dina Kraft interviewing Sami Saadi, co-CEO of Tsofen, in Nazareth, November 2019, for the 15th episode of her Hadassah podcast, 'The Branch.' (Courtesy Mitchell Coopersmith)
December 11, 2019, 2:33 am
A veteran reporter examines Jewish-Arab relationships in ‘The Branch’ podcast
Dina Kraft talks to pairs of Jewish and Arab friends, colleagues, and workmates for a Hadassah project
By Jessica Steinberg
The Carmel Medical Center hospital in Haifa. (Courtesy)
May 5, 2019, 12:06 pm
Facing criticism, Haifa hospital reinstates Israeli flags for Independence Day
Director of Carmel Medical Center overrides directive to remove banners, issues apology
By ToI Staff
An image capture of a Meretz Arabic language clip calling for the end of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel above a diagram depiction of the gate into Auschwitz death camp, March 28, 2019.
March 28, 2019, 4:51 pm
Meretz cancels campaign ad that used Auschwitz gate to portray occupation
Party investigating whether outsourced Arabic social media clip was posted accidentally or was ‘sabotage’
By ToI Staff
Noa Sattath
April 3, 2017, 1:26 pm
Noa Sattath
The best medicine for Arab-Jewish ties
A recent report exploring coexistence in the health care system concludes that it’s a remarkable model of cooperation
Yedidia Stern
December 27, 2016, 12:39 pm
Yedidia Stern
Is Israeli society falling apart?
The good news from the 2016 Israeli Democracy Index: both Jews and Arabs in Israel are doing better than you’d think
An image from 'Women in Sink,' a documentary set in a Christian-Arab hair salon in Haifa (YouTube screenshot)
May 26, 2016, 3:38 am
Arabs, Jews bond over shampoo at Haifa hair salon
Filmmaker Iris Zaki captures candid thoughts on the Arab-Jewish relationship from everyday women — while washing their hair
By Gabe Friedman
Haim Ramon in the Knesset in 2010. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 7, 2016, 7:35 pm
Former minister: Israel must separate from East Jerusalem or lose city
Haim Ramon says if capital’s 320,000 Palestinian residents were to vote, next mayor ‘will be the Mufti’s grandson’
By ToI Staff
Norman JW Goda
April 29, 2016, 8:57 am
Norman JW Goda
Anti-Semitism as anti-Zionism, circa 1946
The Arab world has a long history of cloaking a hatred of Jews in the noble garb of anti-colonialism
Blue Stars of David painted in the foyer of the Amman courthouse where Jordanian-Palestinian judge Raed Zeiter, killed while crossing into the West Bank, worked. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich)
May 7, 2015, 4:37 pm
Dodging swastikas and Israel hate, Jordan’s secret Jews slip beneath the radar
The untold story of the Jewish-American aid workers living, studying and traveling in the Hashemite Kingdom
By Avi Lewis
MK Ahmad Tibi reads a poem he authored in the Knesset on November 4, 2014 (photo credit: YouTube/ערוץ הכנסת)
November 6, 2014, 2:14 pm
Arab lawmaker calls Russian-speaking MKs ‘drunks’
Ahmad Tibi was responding to Yisrael Beytenu’s revival of a bill to restrict the volume of the Muslim call to prayer
By Spencer Ho
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