ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to classify the kinds of cases in which discretionary power is typically wielded by the bureaucracy in a way that may be discriminatory to Arabs. The fact that institutional discrimination is an established feature of government decision-making is best revealed by a formal resolution adopted by the government in 1987. Room is thereby created for budgeting policies which discriminate between different sectors of the population. Jewish Agency participation in the project served to justify adoption of clearly discriminatory criteria in allocation of government resources. The rationale offered was that the funding came from the Jewish Agency, and was therefore restricted to Jewish beneficiaries. A comparison carried out between eleven Jewish local authorities and non-Jewish authorities with similar size populations showed that approximately one third of the number of social welfare staff positions approved in the Jewish authorities had been approved in the non-Jewish authorities.
