Minorities in Israel

Azarya, Victor. The Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem: Urban Life Behind Monastery Walls (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984)

Colbi, Saul P. Christianity in the Holy Land: Past and Present (Tel Aviv: Am Hassefer, 1969

Cohen, Hillel. Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.

Cohen, Ra’anan. Strangers in Their Homeland: A Critical Study of Israel’s Arab Citizens. Portland: Sussex, 2009.

Colbi, Saul P. A Short History of Christianity in the Holy Land. Tel Aviv: Am HaSefer, 1966. 

______.A History of the Christian Presence in the Holy Land. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988. 

______.The Growth and Development of Christian Church Institutions in the State of Israel. Jerusalem: Israel Economist, 1972. 

–.Christian Churches in Israel: Recent Developments in the Relations Between the State of Israel and the Christian Churches. Jerusalem: Israel Economist, 1969. 

Emmett, Chad F. Beyond the Basilica: Christians and Muslims in Nazareth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Geller, Randall S. 2017. Minorities in the Israeli Military 1948-58. Lanham Maryland: Lexington Books.

Haiduc-Dale, Noah. Arab Christians in British Mandate Palestine: Communalism and Nationalism, 1917-1948. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. 

Haklai, Oded. Palestinian Ethnonationalism in Israel. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 

Hitman, Gadi. Israel and Its Arab minority, 1948-2008: Dialogue, Protest, Violence. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2016.

Irani, George Emile. Papacy and the Middle East: the Role of the Holy See in the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1962-1984. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986.

Israeli, Raphael. Green Crescent Over Nazareth: The Displacement of Christians by Muslims in the Holy Land. Abingdon: Routledge, 2014. 

Jamal, Amal. Arab Minority Nationalism In Israel: The Politics of Indigeneity. New York: Routledge, 2011.

Kildani, Hanna. Modern Christianity in the Holy Land. Bloomington: Authorhouse Publishing, 2010. 

Kronish, Ronald, and Michael B. McGarry. Coexistence & Reconciliation in Israel: Voices for Interreligious Dialogue. New York: Paulist Press, 2015. 

Faier, Elizabeth. Organizations, Gender, and the Culture of Palestinian Activism in Haifa, Israel. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Firro, Kais M. The Druzes in the Jewish State: A Brief History. Leiden: Brill, 1991. 

Freas, Erik. Muslim-Christian Relations in Late-Ottoman Palestine: Where Nationalism and Religion Intersect. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 

Mansour, Abdullah. Narrow Gate Churches: The Christian Presence in the Holy Land under Muslim and Jewish Rule (Pasadena: Hope Publishing House, 2004).

McGahern, Una. Palestinian Christians in Israel: State Attitudes towards Non-Muslims in a Jewish State. Abingdon: Routledge, 2011.

Monterescu, Daniel, and Dan Rabinowitz. Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics, Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli 

Towns. Burlington: Ashgate, 2007.

______.Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015.

O’Mahony, Anthony, ed. The Christian Communities of Jerusalem and the Holy Land: Studies in History, Religion and Politics. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003. 

______. Palestinian Christians: Religion, Politics, and Society in the Holy Land. London: Melisende, 1999.

Peleg, Ilan and Dov Waxman. Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within. New York: Cambridge, 2011.

Smooha, Sammy. Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel: Alienation and Rapprochement. Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace, 2010. 

Stein, Rebecca L. Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. 

Stendel, Ori. The Minorities in Israel: Trends in the Development of the Arab and Druze Communities, 1948-1973. Jerusalem: The Israel Economist, 1973. 

Tsimhoni, Daphne. Christian Communities in Jerusalem and the West Bank Since 1948: An Historical, Social, and Political Study. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993. 

Treston, Mark. Galilee: The Christian, the Druze, the Jew and the Muslim. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2006. 

Yazbak, Mahmoud, and Yfaat Weiss. Haifa Before & After 1948 – Narratives of a Mixed City. Dordrecht: Republic of Letters, 2011. 

Westheimer, Ruth K and Gil Sedan. 2016. The Unknown Face of Islam: Circassians in Israel. New York: Lantern Books.

Bartal, Israel. “Who Needs the Nation-State Law? The State of the Jews, Fears, and Fearmongering?” in Defining Israel: The Jewish State, Democracy, and the Law, ed. Simon Rabinovitch (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2018), 217-228.

Bligh, Alexander, ed. The Israeli Palestinians: An Arab Minority in the Jewish State. London: Frank Cass, 2003. 

Farah, Rima. “The Rise of a Christian Aramaic Nationality in Modern Israel,” Israel Studies 26, no. 2, Summer 2021, 1-28. 

Firro, Kais M. “Reshaping Druze Particularism in Israel.” Journal of Palestine Studies 30, no. 3 (2001): 40–53.

Frisch, Hillel. “The Druze Minority in the Israeli Military: Traditionalizing an Ethnic Policing Role,” Armed Forces & Society 20, no. 1 (Fall 1993): 51-67.

Galnoor, Itzhak. “Arab Citizens in the ‘Jewish’ State of Israel,” in The Oxford Handbook of Israeli Society and Politics, ed. Reuven Hazan, Alan Dowty, Menachem Hofnung, and Gideon Rahat (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 141-160. 

Gelber, Yoav. “Druze and Jews in the War of 1948,” Middle Eastern Studies 31, no. 2 (April 1995): 229-252.

Geller, Randall. “The Recruitment and Conscription of the Circassian Community into the Israel Defence Forces, 1948–58.” Middle Eastern Studies 48, no. 3 (2012): 387–99. 

Geller, Randall.“The Baha’i Minority in the State of Israel 1948-1957.” Middle Eastern Studies, 403–18.

Hazran, Yusri. “Minority Groups in Palestine during the British Mandate,” World of the Orient 2019, no. 3 (September 2019): 15-30.

Hazran, “The Druzification of Arab Christians in Israel in The Wake of the ‘Arab Spring,’” Israel Studies 24, no. 3 (Fall 2019), 75-100.

Jiryis, Sabri. “The Arabs in Israel, 1973-79,” Journal of Palestine Studies 8, no. 4 (Summer 1979), 31-56.

Katz, Yossi. “Status and Rights of the Arab Minority in the Nascent Jewish State,” Middle Eastern Studies 33, no. 3 (2004): 535-569.

Nisan, Mordechai. “The Druze in Israel: Questions of Identity, Citizenship, and Patriotism.” Middle East Journal 64, no. 4 (2010): 575–96. 

Orbach, Danny. “Black Flag At A Crossroads: The Kafr Qasim Political Trial, 1957–58,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 45 (2013): 491–511.

Rabinovich, Itamar. “From ‘Israeli Arabs’ to ‘Israel’s Palestinian Citizens,’” Israel and the Arabs, 1948-2003 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004): 251-262.  

Rekhess, Elie. “The Evolvement of an Arab-Palestinian National Minority in Israel,” Israel Studies 12, no. 3 (2007): 1–28.

Roislien, Hanne Eggen. “Religion and Military Conscription: The Case of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).” Armed Forces & Society 39, no. 2 (2013): 213–32. 

Rouhana, Nadim. “The Political Transformation of the Palestinians in Israel: From Acquiescence to Challenge,” Journal of Palestine Studies 18, no. 3 (1989), 38-59.

Rudnitzky, Arik. “The Contemporary Historiographical Debate in Israel on Government Policies on Arabs in Israel during the Military Administration Period, 1948-1966,” Israel Studies 19, no. 1 (Spring 2014), 24-47.

Rudnitzky, Arik. “Government Policy toward the Arab Population 1992-2015: A Comparative Overview,” in Arab Citizens of Israel Early in the Twenty-First Century (Tel Aviv: The Institute for National Security Studies, July 2014): 67-78.

Sapir, Gideon. “Was It Right to Pass a Nation-State Law?” in Defining Israel: The Jewish State, Democracy, and the Law, ed. Simon Rabinovitch (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2018), 207-216.

Shamai, Shmuel. Ali Shemali, Dennis Gorbatkin, Nadim Chativ Halil Elachmad and Zinaida Ilatov. “Identity and Sense of Place of Ghajar Residents Living in Border Junction of Syria Israel and Lebanon.” Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 61–72.

Smooha, Sammy. “Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel After the May 2021 Unrest,” Fathom Journal (October 2018). https://fathomjournal.org/arab-jewish-relations-in-israel-after-the-may-2021-unrest-a-survey-by-sammy-smooha/

Sorek, Tamir. “Public Silence and Latent Memories: Yitzhak Rabin and the Arab-Palestinian Citizens of Israel,” Israel Studies Review 28, no. 1 (Summer 2013): 78-97.

Susser, Asher. “Partition and the Arab Palestinian Minority in Israel,” Israel Studies 14, no. 2 (Summer 2009): 105-119.

Tessler, Mark and Audra Grant, “Israel’s Arab Citizens: The Continuing Struggle,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 555 (January 1998): 97-113. 

Tsimhoni, Daphne. “The Status of the Arab Christians under the British Mandate in Palestine,” Middle Eastern Studies 20, no. 4 (October 1984): 166-192.

Yishai, Yael. “Integration Of Arabs In An Israeli Party: The Case Of Mapam, 1948–54,” in Zionism and Arabism in Palestine, ed. Elie Kedourie and Sylvia G. Haim (London: Frank Cass, 1982): 241-267.

Zeedan, Rami. “Reconsidering the Druze Narrative in the Wake of the Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People,” Israel Studies 25, no. 3 (Fall 2020): 153-166.