The deadly shooting followed a previous murder on Tuesday, when a 50-year-old man was shot dead in the northern city of Umm al-Fahm, and a 50-year-old woman was lightly wounded.

The bills, submitted by Likud lawmaker Amit Halevy, seek to set stricter criteria for obtaining a teaching license. If legislated, the bill would require the Education Ministry to conduct a security background check on every potential teacher.

Samira Azzam defied tradition by starting a party that fielded the first-ever, all-woman slate of candidates for a local council in a Druze town. Her achievement, and that of other Druze and Arab local politicians, is the result of a grassroots movement.

Without work, education or direction, nearly a third of Israeli Arab young adults find themselves without a purpose.

Israel’s protest movement has avoided an explicit call for a truly inclusive democracy. Dayar Omari’s killing is proof it shouldn’t.

If the Netanyahu government secures a forever majority, it will bolster the argument that an apartheid regime reigns between the river and the sea.

Kan 11, the public broadcaster, launched a series of reports this week by Eran Singer and Roy Ettinger titled “Palestinians Blue-and-White.” The first item set out to examine “the growing extremism in Arab society in Israel” and asked, “What went wrong?”

Facing rude stares on the train, showing your ID everywhere and staying indoors during times of violence. Arab Israelis tell Haaretz about how they cope with the country's worsening intercommunal relations.

Israel remains one of the most impoverished states in the developed world, according to 2021 poverty report.

The Education Ministry’s systematic disregard of studies, surveys and state comptroller reports has buried hope for education for coexistence.

The fact that the attorney general’s office approved Education Minister Yoav Gallant’s move some months ago to intervene in the Bible studies curriculum and remove clips from the satirical program “The Jews are Coming” from the ministry’s website for Bible studies teachers, is additional evidence that Israel’s democracy is in crisis.