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Poll: Nearly 50% of Israeli Jews don't want to live near Arabs
By Fadi Eyadat, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Arabs, Haifa University 

About half the Jewish public objects to Arabs' living in Jewish neighborhoods, a Haifa University public opinion poll finds.

Fifty-six percent of Israeli Arabs strongly support living in the same neighborhood as Jews. While 69 percent of the Jews in Israel support friendship with Arabs, 54 percent said they had no Arab friends.

Professors Faisal Azaiza and Rahel Hertz Lazarowitz, who conducted the survey, interviewed representative samples of 501 Jews and 513 Arabs.
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Only 29 percent of the Jews were very much in favor of living in the same neighborhood as Arabs, and 23 percent supported this moderately. Some 19 percent of the Arab public supported shared neighborhoods moderately, while 25 percent objected to Arabs' living in Jewish neighborhoods.

The survey finds that 14 percent of the Jewish public objects to being friends with Arabs; 17 percent do not object to it but prefer friendship with a Jew, while 69 percent were unreservedly willing to be friends with Arabs.

Asked who has Arab friends, 54 percent said they did not, and 23 percent said they had Arab friends but had not visited their home in the last two years. Some 85 percent, however, were willing to be friends with Jews compared to 10 percent who were willing but preferred to be friends with Arabs.

Only 6 percent of the Arab interviewees objected to being friends with Jews. Nineteen percent of the Arabs have no Jewish friends at all, while 50 percent have visited Jewish friends during the past two years.

Forty-four percent of both Jewish and Arab communities are in favor of integrating Arabs in Jewish high schools, and 61 percent of the Jews and 80 percent of the Arabs strongly support holding meetings between Arab and Jewish youth.

Thirty-five percent of the Jews and 7 percent of the Arabs would not like to see Arab pupils in Jewish high schools, and some 23 percent of both groups are not in favor of meetings between Jews and Arabs.

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      2.   Arabs living in Jewish neighborhoods 02:48  |  Edifice 13/03/08
      3.   Arabs weren`t asked whether Jews could live in Arab `hoods 02:58  |  Maya 13/03/08
      4.   So What 03:34  |  leo 13/03/08
      5.   Bizarre Title 04:03  |  Ilan 13/03/08
      6.   Not the same planet! 04:07  |  Avram 13/03/08
      7.   jews are evil, their own book even says 04:47  |  cursed jews 13/03/08
      8.   Education does not breed tolerance 05:35  |  Chris Barghout 13/03/08
      9.   Racist state 05:39  |  Ismail 13/03/08
      10.   #5 troll 06:04  |  Ilan 13/03/08
      11.   A Prospect of Hope 06:19  |  DoubleClick 13/03/08
      12.   Mark Lincoln # 5 _ Ridiculous Invention About German Feelings 06:22  |  Eli 13/03/08
      13.   good neighbors 06:31  |  Lauren 13/03/08
      14.   Arabs` living in Jewish neighborhoods 06:47  |  stanley 13/03/08
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      16.   Mutualy Accnowledged Distrust between Arabs and Israeli 07:27  |  Kris Lazar 13/03/08
      17.   Integrating arabs into JEWISH or rather ISRAEI schools 07:32  |  Kris Lazar 13/03/08
      18.   #5 - And I suggest Mark... 07:48  |  JES 13/03/08
      19.   Jews and Arabs 07:53  |  Atoo 13/03/08
      20.   Pretentious title!Should be Arabs and Jews do not want to co-live 08:22  |  arthur 13/03/08
      21.   They steal and harrass our daughters- and sons 08:30  |  Anonymous 13/03/08
      22.   Further Evidence of Sickness 08:37  |  MRT 13/03/08
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      24.   Title doesn`t tell what the Arabs think 09:01  |  Amy 13/03/08
      25.   Most Jews , or Real traditional Jews are from Arab Origine 09:07  |  Arab Sam 13/03/08
      26.   # 5 now we know why the world hates jews 09:28  |  SJ 13/03/08
      27.   Yes SJ. 09:52  |  cfs 13/03/08
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      31.   Think about it.. 10:25  |  Oren Cohen 13/03/08
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      33.   too small group 10:31  |  Miki 13/03/08
      34.   University of Haifa survey: more details please 10:49  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 13/03/08
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      36.   QUIET NEIGHBOURS WELCOME 11:14  |  SM 13/03/08
      37.   Twisted writings 11:25  |  Jackie 13/03/08
      38.   racist headline 11:26  |  DC 13/03/08
      39.   `No escaping Arab presence` 11:27  |  x-ray 13/03/08
      40.   LOL Imagine the faces in a madrassa 11:28  |  Razal 13/03/08
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      42.   T o # 9 Speak up to what ? 11:50  |  Suad 13/03/08
      43.   Typical Ha`aretz did not place my response 12:21  |  arthur 13/03/08
      44.   thank you , Maya#3 12:24  |  nina 13/03/08
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      46.   Arab Sam....keep dreaming... 12:55  |  Ofer Maimon 13/03/08
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      48.   #7 what the book really says... 13:02  |  Edith 13/03/08
      49.   Amazing 13:07  |  Edith 13/03/08
      50.   Please read the article again 13:10  |  Leila 13/03/08
      51.   Edith 13:16  |  x-ray 13/03/08
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      53.   Can you blame them!? 13:28  |  SHIMON 13/03/08
      54.   English vs. Germans in WW2 13:34  |  Alan 13/03/08
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