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Ilan Amit

Apr 29, 2026, 12:31 AM

Selective security for Israel’s citizens amounts to an elective surrender

Arab society protests against violence in front of the Prime Minister's Office. Photo credit: Muhammad Khalilah

In the months since October 7, Arab and Jewish Israelis have learned to live with a new vocabulary of fear: Rockets, Hostages, National emergency, and mass demonstrations. This vocabulary had further solidified under the two wars with Iran in...

Mar 5, 2026, 1:36 PM

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Telling Arab Israelis to ‘take shelter’ is a cruel joke

Mohamad Hassouna, who resides in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Al-Fura, sits in a building near where his 7-year-old daughter Amina was injured by an Iranian missile shard in the southern Negev desert on April 14, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

After the last war with Iran, the state said there was time to help the 46% of Arab citizens who have no protection from missiles. And then, it did...nothing

Jun 16, 2025, 3:45 PM

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No shelter, no excuse: A plea for Arab citizens’ safety

Emergency services are seen at a residential building in Tamra, northern Israel, which sustained a direct strike during an Iranian ballistic missile attack, on June 15, 2025. (Israel Fire and Rescue Service)

Nearly half the country's Arab residents have no access to a protected space and emergency communications are sorely lacking

Apr 20, 2025, 4:46 PM

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Nowhere to run, no one to care: Trauma in Arab society after October 7

Yazan Zakaria Abu Jamaa, 5, killed on October 7 when a rocket fired from Gaza struck his home in the southern Bedouin town of Ar’ara. (Screenshot Makan used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Compared to Jewish society, Arab communities were less prepared for war, especially when it came to protective infrastructure

Apr 3, 2025, 3:40 PM

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The perfect storm of funding cuts crippling Arab society

Beduin women seen at work at the Hura Women's catering Enterprise, known as Al Sanabel, in the Beduin city of Hura in the Negev, on Tuesday, April 1, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Drastic policy changes in the US and Israel, along with shrinking philanthropy, are leaving the country's poorest citizens behind

About Me

Ilan Amit is the Co-CEO of AJEEC-NISPED, the Arab-Jewish Center for Empowerment, Equality, and Cooperation – Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Economic Development.