Arab culture

Tatreez reborn: Palestinian embroidery finds new life in contemporary Israeli fashion

As Palestinian embroidery appears in contemporary fashion, artists and educators are navigating the balance between innovation and preservation

Nomai Hadba wears trousers from his 2025 menswear collection, which incorporates traditional Palestinian Tatreez into contemporary fashion.Premium
Demonstrators from the group Jewish Voice for Peace hold an emergency Passover Seder outside of ICE headquarters on April 14, 2025 in New York City. The group is calling for freedom for Palestine, the release of Mahmoud Khalil, and to protest President Trump.

Fringe rabbis recruit Jewish clergy to lobby against US military aid to Israel, halt weapons sales

 At the end of the school year Arab, Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian girls came together in Kiryat Gat, Israel. Uploaded on 11/5/2024

'The only Jew in the room' offers fresh look at lives of Israeli Arabs

 JORDAN’S KING ABDULLAH greets Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas at a conference, on the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea, earlier this month. The PA’s refusal to condemn Hamas’s atrocities exacerbates the situation, says the writer.

King Abdullah II’s silence on Allenby terror attack speaks volumes - analysis


Abraham Initiatives: 'More than half of Arabs murdered are young people'

According to new data by the organization, some 26 young Arabs up to the age of 30 lost their lives this year in circumstances related to violence and crime.

A protest against the rising crime and violence in the Arab sector in Israel, Jaffa, Saturday, February 6, 2021.

Gulf rabbinical court to 'revive golden age' of Jewish-Muslim cooperation

‘Jewish communities are being reborn in Arab lands which for the last 70 years have been practically cleansed of any Jewish communities in most of these countries’

Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates Rabbi Yehuda Sarna meets with Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan at ceremony in 2019 in which the crown prince was given a Torah scroll dedicated to his father’s memory.

Back to life: Health Ministry launches campaign to encourage vaccination

Passport holders will be able to go out to restaurants with friends again, go to the gym, attend rock concerts and "sing along with every word," as well as go to cinemas and theaters.

Israelis sit down to eat with friends at a restaurant in an ad campaign by the Health Ministry to encourage vaccination for COVID-19.

Violence, organized crime on the rise in Arab community in Israel

In 2019, 71% of the 125 homicide victims in Israel were Arabs.

A protest against the rising crime and violence in the Arab sector in Israel, Jaffa, Saturday, February 6, 2021.

Jewish teachers in Arab schools

Over 70% of Israel's population are Jews and 21% are Arab. However, most Arabs and Jews attend separate schools and separate school systems.

Students going to school

Netanyahu: 'A plan that will bring about real revolution in Arab society'

"A small minority of Arabs are responsible about 60% of the crime in Israel and the victims of crime are, of course, Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs alike."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen speaking at a COVID-19 vaccination center in Sderot, on January 27, 2021.

Pandemic leads rise in violence on women in Arab societies, UN study finds

Lockdowns make things worse, but the roots of the problem attributed to cultural, legal, and social factors.

ONE OUT OF four women in the Arab community have faced verbal or physical violence in the past year.

Arab students studying engineering & computer science doubled in 5 years

In addition, the number of female Arab students studying in these fields have tripled.

Tel Aviv University campus

It’s time for a semitically bilingual leader in Israel

Not being able to communicate directly to the 21% of Arab-Israelis in their language is practically a political sin.

CANADA’S CONSERVATIVE PARTY leader Erin O’Toole speaks in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, in October.

Israeli Islam course popular among students in many Muslim countries

"Thanks to this course I went back to my roots. I am a Muslim Syrian and wanted to learn more about our history, which made us who we are today," said one student from Syria.

The Porter School of Environmental Studies Building - Tel Aviv University