What's behind the rising crime rate among Israel's Arabs - Business
Follow Feb. 14, 2021 Two statistics illustrate the problems facing Israeli Arabs today. The one that is better known, and has been accompanied by a major public debate, is the high levels of crime. The other is the number of young Arabs who have neither a job or are in school, and that has gotten little attention. It should be getting more because the two phenomena are directly connected, says Dr. Nasreen Hadad Haj-Yahya, director of the Arab-Jewish Relations Program at the Israel Democracy Institute. She has been studying what is known as NEET, an acronym economists use that stands for Not i...
Source: haaretz.com