Arab Population

The Government of Israel is implementing long-term programs with a range of objectives and methods for the Arab population.

MJB's Research Team on the Arab Population is developing its expertise in evaluating complex intervention programs of this kind. The team also emphasizes strengthening our knowledge and understanding of the unique characteristics of Israel's Arab population in all its diversity. The complexity of the programs, and the fact that they are implemented over time, highlight MJB's longstanding contribution to policymakers.

2022 Research Themes

Government 5-year plan for the social and economic development of the Bedouin population in the Negev (Resolution 2397)
Integrating into higher education

2022 Research Themes

Government 5-year plan for the social and economic development of the Bedouin population in the Negev (Resolution 2397)

Integrating into higher education

Research Staff

Arwa Majadlih

Researcher

Dana Lewis

Administrative Coordinator

Dr. Dafna Haran

Research Scholar

Dr. Yael Litmanovitz

Researcher

Dr. Yonatan Eyal

Senior Research Scholar and Team Leader

Prof. Bruce Rosen

Systems Research Group Leader and Director of the Smokler Center for Health Policy Research

Yoav Loeff

Research Associate

Recent Publications

The Program for Improving the Quality of Education in Arab Kindergartens: Formative and Summative Assessment Study

Fida Nijim-Ektelat, Dr. Yoa Sorek

2022

The objectives of the research were to provide the program’s developers and operators with ongoing information about the challenges and successes in implementing the program, and assess its outcomes form a variety of aspects.

Children with Disabilities in the Bedouin Population in the Negev

Dr. Hagit Sofer-Furman, Dr. Lital Barlev, Nurit Guedj

2021

The objectives of the research were to map available services for children with disabilities and their family members in the Bedouin population in the Negev, in the education, health and welfare areas and to identify barriers to service take-up and unmet needs in these areas, in routine times as well as during COVID-19.

Empowering Municipalities: Review of the International Literature

Yoav Loeff

2021

This literature review is part of a comprehensive research plan designed to inform and evaluate the Five-Year Plan and lay the groundwork for a follow-up plan. The review covers global models for municipality empowerment as well as insights in this area provided by the research literature, assuming such information can help formulate ideas and modes of action for the continued empowerment of the Bedouin municipalities.

The Program for Empowering Bedouin Municipalities within the framework of the Plan for Socioeconomic Development of the Bedouin Population in the Negev, 2017-2021 (Government Decision 2397): An Evaluation Study – Interim Report: Fall 2020

Yoav Loeff, Walaa Hajajra, Dr. Yonatan Eyal

2021

The objectives of this study are to analyze the conceptual basis of the Empowerment Program; describe its implementation; examine barriers that can prevent its optimal realization; assess its effects; and ultimately help draw conclusions from it, offer ways to improve it in future implementation stages, and form a basis for informed follow-up programs and initiatives.

All Publications - Arab Population