ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the statutory provisions that violate the equality principle by adopting either overt or covert discriminatory arrangements. The Minister of Religious Affairs conceded that provision had to make for non-Jewish religious services as well, and declared that his ministry was preparing a bill to deal with these services. The “National Institutions,” as the World Zionist Organization, Jewish Agency and Jewish National Fund are often called, were established as Jewish institutions aimed at furthering Jewish aims, and Jewish aims only. The status of the National Institutions is problematical because while entrusted with tasks that are par excellence tasks of a governmental nature, their mandate restricts them to dealing with the Jewish sector of the Israeli population. Covert discrimination may also involve allocation of benefits according to geographical location and the drawing of boundaries so as to include Jewish settlements and exclude Arab ones.
