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Friday, August 15, 1997 | return to: international
Rights group slams treatment of Arabs
by JERUSALEM (JTA) -- An Israeli civil rights group has charged that the Jewish state continues to neglect the needs of its Arab ci, Issuing its annual report, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel said that unequal treatment of Israeli Arabs remained one
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"There was a major cut in budgets across the board this year," ACRI President Ruth Gavison told a Jerusalem news conference. "It's easier to cut allocations to groups that are weak, and the group that's weakest in our community is the Arabs."
The most serious areas of discrimination were in housing and education, the report said.
Copyright Notice (c) 1997, San Francisco Jewish Community Publications Inc., dba Jewish Bulletin of Northern California. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any form without permission.
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