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“Paying With Our Blood”: Batya Kalish and Bashar Iraqi on Crime, Policing, and the Breaking Point in Arab Israeli Communities
In this episode of the Tel Aviv Diary podcast, I sit down with Batya Kalish, director of the Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab Equality and Shared Society (SVF), and Bashar Iraqi, a Palestinian Arab citizen of Israel from Tira who is active in efforts to combat crime inside Arab society and is involved with the community initiative Qulnuna. Together, we try to understand what is driving the relentless wave of murders in Arab Israeli towns and mixed cities—and what can realistically be done to stop it.
We begin with a wide-angle look at Arab society in Israel: real progress in education and…
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