Government Decisions Pertaining to Arab Citizens, Development Plans for Arab Communities and Follow-up on Implementation, 1999-2005

This report tracks the implementation of several decisions made by the ministerial committee on minority sector affairs between the years 1999-2005. According to the authors, these decisions delineate Israeli government policy toward Arab citizens. The authors examine various aspects of this policy in this period, the extent to which urgent issues of gaps and inequality between Jews and Arabs are being addressed, and whether any progress has been made in reducing the gaps between Jews and Arabs and improving the status of the Arab citizens of Israel as equal citizens in the State of Israel.