ABSTRACT
The political conflict between Jews and Arabs as expressed in the competition for the land of central Galilee raises a crucial problem relating to the development and advancement of the minorities in Israel. Old-time Israel, which did so much to absorb hundreds of thousands of newcomers in the 1950s and 1960s, created a physical, economic and social infrastructure for them, integrated them into the life of the country and succeeded to a considerable extent in providing what was called the ‘Second Israel’ (the mass immigration of the 1950s) with a solid foundation, did too little for its non-Jewish minorities, the ‘Third Israel’.
