ABSTRACT
The Arabs who remained in Israel were only a small part of the original Arab population that lived in what became the frontiers of the State of Israel, and they were also a relatively weak part of this population. The Arabs who remained in Israel numbered about 156,000, most of them Muslims, a large number Christian and in addition there were also about 15,000 Druzes and Bedouins. The general attitude developed by the Israeli authorities towards the Arab population was composed of official recognition and acceptance as citizens in the framework of the basic democratic framework of the State mixed with strong suspicion and ignorance, and a certain blindness to their special problems. The Arabs who remained in Israel were ecologically concentrated around Nazareth on the Galilee and in the famous Little Triangle, with small groups in Haifa, Jaffa and Lydda. The fact of Israel being a Jewish State was, of course, emphasized in several ways.
