ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses basic questions about social class resources and ethnic inequality: What is the changing structure of inequality in Israel? How does the social class hierarchy overlap with ethnicity, and do social class differences among ethnic groups persist generationally? It outlines the increases over time in educational levels, the different economic resources brought about by immigration, the occupational changes of immigrants, and the general changes in consumption and dependency patterns. The chapter reviews the diverse ethnic origins of immigrants and their continuing residential concentration in Israel and have noted how government policies have reinforced these patterns. It investigates the implications of these changes for the distribution of resources and for the changing overlap of ethnic origins and social class. In all societies, there is an educational and occupational distribution, and there are differences in the way economic resources and income are allocated.
