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A building in Jaffa, one of the many cities were Arabs and Jews live side by side. (Archives) Last update - 12:55 13/03/2008 Poll: Nearly 50% of Israeli Jews don't want to live near Arabs By Fadi Eyadat, Haaretz Correspondent Tags: Arabs, Haifa University  About half the Jewish public objects to Arabs' living in Jewish neighborhoods, a Haifa University public opinion poll finds. Fifty-six percent of Israeli Arabs strongly support living in the same neighborhood as Jews. While 69 percent of the Jews in Israel support friendship with Arabs, 54 percent said they had no Arab friends. Professors Faisal Azaiza and Rahel Hertz Lazarowitz, who conducted the survey, interviewed representative samples of 501 Jews and 513 Arabs. Advertisement Only 29 percent of the Jews were very much in favor of living in the same neighborhood as Arabs, and 23 percent supported this moderately. Some 19 percent of the Arab public supported shared neighborhoods moderately, while 25 percent objected to Arabs' living in Jewish neighborhoods. The survey finds that 14 percent of the Jewish public objects to being friends with Arabs; 17 percent do not object to it but prefer friendship with a Jew, while 69 percent were unreservedly willing to be friends with Arabs. Asked who has Arab friends, 54 percent said they did not, and 23 percent said they had Arab friends but had not visited their home in the last two years. Some 85 percent, however, were willing to be friends with Jews compared to 10 percent who were willing but preferred to be friends with Arabs. Only 6 percent of the Arab interviewees objected to being friends with Jews. Nineteen percent of the Arabs have no Jewish friends at all, while 50 percent have visited Jewish friends during the past two years. Forty-four percent of both Jewish and Arab communities are in favor of integrating Arabs in Jewish high schools, and 61 percent of the Jews and 80 percent of the Arabs strongly support holding meetings between Arab and Jewish youth. Thirty-five percent of the Jews and 7 percent of the Arabs would not like to see Arab pupils in Jewish high schools, and some 23 percent of both groups are not in favor of meetings between Jews and Arabs. Related articles: Poll: 75% of Israeli Arabs support Jewish, democratic constitution Bookmark to del.icio.us   Hezbollah scare Lebanese group's influence has dramatically increased in the West Bank. Literary boycott Peres calls Muslim countries' shunning of Paris Book Fair 'most ridiculous.'   1.   And how many Jews would oppose living under occupation? 02:36  |  Poll 13/03/08   2.   Arabs living in Jewish neighborhoods 02:48  |  Edifice 13/03/08   3.   Arabs weren`t asked whether Jews could live in Arab `hoods 02:58  |  Maya 13/03/08   4.   So What 03:34  |  leo 13/03/08   5.   Bizarre Title 04:03  |  Ilan 13/03/08   6.   Not the same planet! 04:07  |  Avram 13/03/08   7.   jews are evil, their own book even says 04:47  |  cursed jews 13/03/08   8.   Education does not breed tolerance 05:35  |  Chris Barghout 13/03/08   9.   Racist state 05:39  |  Ismail 13/03/08   10.   #5 troll 06:04  |  Ilan 13/03/08   11.   A Prospect of Hope 06:19  |  DoubleClick 13/03/08   12.   Mark Lincoln # 5 _ Ridiculous Invention About German Feelings 06:22  |  Eli 13/03/08   13.   good neighbors 06:31  |  Lauren 13/03/08   14.   Arabs` living in Jewish neighborhoods 06:47  |  stanley 13/03/08   15.   Surprised it is not worse 07:26  |  Slibovitz 13/03/08   16.   Mutualy Accnowledged Distrust between Arabs and Israeli 07:27  |  Kris Lazar 13/03/08   17.   Integrating arabs into JEWISH or rather ISRAEI schools 07:32  |  Kris Lazar 13/03/08   18.   #5 - And I suggest Mark... 07:48  |  JES 13/03/08   19.   Jews and Arabs 07:53  |  Atoo 13/03/08   20.   Pretentious title!Should be Arabs and Jews do not want to co-live 08:22  |  arthur 13/03/08   21.   They steal and harrass our daughters- and sons 08:30  |  Anonymous 13/03/08   22.   Further Evidence of Sickness 08:37  |  MRT 13/03/08   23.   Arabs welcome in our neighborhood 08:50  |  SJ 13/03/08   24.   Title doesn`t tell what the Arabs think 09:01  |  Amy 13/03/08   25.   Most Jews , or Real traditional Jews are from Arab Origine 09:07  |  Arab Sam 13/03/08   26.   # 5 now we know why the world hates jews 09:28  |  SJ 13/03/08   27.   Yes SJ. 09:52  |  cfs 13/03/08   28.   Different ethnicities don`t HAVE TO live in same neighbourhood... 09:55  |  Swiss (Dino) 13/03/08   29.   Arabs in Jewish neighborhoods 10:10  |  shoshi 13/03/08   30.   ETHIOPIANS, POLES, etc. HAVE NO SAY ON THOSE LIVING HERE 3000 YRS 10:24  |  TripleJump 13/03/08   31.   Think about it.. 10:25  |  Oren Cohen 13/03/08   32.   WHO are these newcomers who tell indigenous where to live? 10:28  |  Martin 13/03/08   33.   too small group 10:31  |  Miki 13/03/08   34.   University of Haifa survey: more details please 10:49  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 13/03/08   35.   gaza hood 11:11  |  danny 13/03/08   36.   QUIET NEIGHBOURS WELCOME 11:14  |  SM 13/03/08   37.   Twisted writings 11:25  |  Jackie 13/03/08   38.   racist headline 11:26  |  DC 13/03/08   39.   `No escaping Arab presence` 11:27  |  x-ray 13/03/08   40.   LOL Imagine the faces in a madrassa 11:28  |  Razal 13/03/08   41.   Atoo you`re not prejudiced: you`re just a bigot 11:30  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 13/03/08   42.   T o # 9 Speak up to what ? 11:50  |  Suad 13/03/08   43.   Typical Ha`aretz did not place my response 12:21  |  arthur 13/03/08   44.   thank you , Maya#3 12:24  |  nina 13/03/08   45.   Arabs in Jewish neighborhoods 12:44  |  Hilda 13/03/08   46.   Arab Sam....keep dreaming... 12:55  |  Ofer Maimon 13/03/08   47.   Maybe they do so because... 13:00  |  Edith 13/03/08   48.   #7 what the book really says... 13:02  |  Edith 13/03/08   49.   Amazing 13:07  |  Edith 13/03/08   50.   Please read the article again 13:10  |  Leila 13/03/08   51.   Edith 13:16  |  x-ray 13/03/08   52.   Jews ( or Israëli Jews? ) and Arabs 13:22  |  Johdep 13/03/08   53.   Can you blame them!? 13:28  |  SHIMON 13/03/08   54.   English vs. Germans in WW2 13:34  |  Alan 13/03/08   55.   the statistics are not honestly presented 13:36  |  bob 13/03/08   56.   How come these polls occurr always after a mass terror attack 13:38  |  Alan 13/03/08   57.   Edifice Your Statements Are Skewed 13:38  |  Yaakov Sullivan 13/03/08   58.   Selling Apartment to Jew Capital Offense under Abbas 13:41  |  Straight Talk 13/03/08   59.   Why did they move to Palestine? 13:44  |  Mary 13/03/08   60.   Israel the racist state 13:45  |  O-Dog 13/03/08   61.   Listen To These False Comparisons 13:53  |  Yaakov Sullivan 13/03/08   62.   Racism in Israël ( and of course in many other countries ) 13:58  |  Johdep 13/03/08   63.   SHIMON Makes Out the Mercaz Harav Look Like 14:11  |  Yaakov Sullivan 13/03/08   64.   statistics 14:25  |  simple random sample 13/03/08   65.   o-dog:turn off the al-jazeera and pick up a text book!!!! 14:31  |  Amos 13/03/08   66.   Choosing neighbors 14:51  |  Deborah 13/03/08   67.   Sullivan - your last remark was incredibly false 14:56  |  SHIMON 13/03/08   68.   THis shows that Israeli-Arabs are overwelmingly for coexistance 15:10  |  Rami 13/03/08   69.   This Is Not What I said SHIMON 15:15  |  Yaakov Sullivan 13/03/08   70.   Well If You Ask People Like That... 15:30  |  Yosemite 13/03/08   71.   poll 15:32  |  pedro porsucasa 13/03/08   72.   Filling in the gaps in the article 15:42  |  AliciaYasmeen 13/03/08   73.   good news 15:43  |  pedro porsucasa 13/03/08   74.   Another fiction 15:44  |  dan 13/03/08   75.   This is so obvious, its funny 15:46  |  Jon 13/03/08   76.   yaakov wants to demean isreal 15:51  |  zody 13/03/08   77.   Of course it was justified Yaacov, you regularly push this idea 16:01  |  Jacob Blues 13/03/08   78.   Muslims want to live in everyone`s hood 16:03  |  American Christian 13/03/08   79.   Getting Blown Up Does Not Increase Tolerance 16:17  |  Efox 13/03/08   80.   re: Chris Barghout 16:19  |  Efox 13/03/08   81.   # 53 Do not generalize `the Arabs" 16:22  |  Suad 13/03/08   82.   Title is Misleading, Questions in the Poll are More Misleading 16:25  |  Efox 13/03/08   83.   To # 54 whom do u mean with the Blitz ? 16:29  |  Suad 13/03/08   84.   Is that SO ! WHY then coming to live in the MIDDLE EAST? 16:29  |  Hakim 13/03/08   85.   This survey proves that Arabs are more Friendly 16:38  |  Abdullah 13/03/08   86.   @59 how wrong can mary be ? totally wrong 16:39  |  v hardman 13/03/08   87.   poll 16:39  |  dan 13/03/08   88.   If Ha`aretz makes do with half a headline, does it make it half- 16:41  |  Jacob Blues 13/03/08   89.   #Avram. Right man. So far PLANET MARS is empty. 16:44  |  Al Arabyiah 13/03/08   90.   #3.Maya.Jews were living with Arabs long before 16:52  |  Walid 13/03/08   91.   #67 SHIMON. Those killed would be in IDF soon to kill Palestinian 17:01  |  Yaakov Sullivan 13/03/08   92.   #70.SUAD. Wonderful. 17:02  |  Aminah 13/03/08   93.   The Real Yaakov Sullivan to Shimon 17:16  |  Yaakov Sullivan 13/03/08   94.   Those who don`t want to live near ARABS 17:27  |  Said 13/03/08   95.   Lowballing the numbers, I believe. 17:29  |  Gideon Reader 13/03/08   96.   Johdep and racism 17:39  |  ziggurat 13/03/08   97.   Poll proves that israeli-arabs are for coexitence 17:47  |  Rami 13/03/08   98.   re: Edith 17:57  |  Efox 13/03/08   99.   Sullivan - king of twisted murderer supportnig logic 18:08  |  SHIMON 13/03/08   100.   It is B/S of only 50%, it is reasonble to assume 100%... 18:09  |  Misha 13/03/08   101.   who wants to live under Arab occupation ? 18:12  |  Momo 13/03/08   102.   To yaakov & friends. The Moloch syndrom 18:12  |  Altalena 13/03/08   103.   do you blame us? 18:18  |  Jewish State 13/03/08   104.   living "near" them 18:19  |  Zvi 13/03/08   105.   Nearly 50% of Israeli Jews don`t want to live near Arabs 18:23  |  Fritz 13/03/08   106.   .. AND SO THEY SAY `ZIONISM IS NOT RACIST` 18:34  |  JACKAL 13/03/08   107.   THIS ARTICLE IS ALMOST MEANINGLESS !!!!!!! 18:34  |  ANTHONY FALLON 13/03/08   108.   A bunch of Hypocrites.... 18:38  |  Phoenix 13/03/08   109.   To false Yaakov Sullivan # 72.... 18:46  |  Ofer Maimon 13/03/08   110.   THE HALF-FULL CUP 19:05  |  Ami 13/03/08   111.   Because a lot of Israelis are racists 19:05  |  matt 13/03/08   112.   The world does not hate Jews 19:05  |  Jay Dee 13/03/08   113.   Suad - can you explain please 19:19  |  David Israel 13/03/08   114.   Another idiotic article 19:37  |  betz55 13/03/08   115.   Haaretz, I am asking you to publish on #72 False Sullivan 19:46  |  Yaakov Sullivan 13/03/08   116.   Integration and coexistance is th esolution.. 19:48  |  Rami 13/03/08   117.   Very interesting comments 19:53  |  Realist 13/03/08   118.   Chris Barghout fromPortland Oregon 20:08  |  David Israel 13/03/08   119.   Making SENSE of Haaretz STATISTICS (part 1) 20:11  |  Gil 13/03/08   120.   re: Ami 20:18  |  Efox 13/03/08   121.   re: Arab Sam 20:26  |  Efox 13/03/08   122.   re: Atoo 20:30  |  Efox 13/03/08   123.   Kosher buildings in Brooklyn 20:42  |  Candida 13/03/08   124.   Poll does not mean jews are racist because 20:48  |  David Israel 13/03/08   125.   Making SENSE of Haaretz STATISTICS (part 2) 21:03  |  Gil 13/03/08   126.   Racism 21:11  |  johdep 13/03/08   127.   Making SENSE of Haaretz STATISTICS (part 3) 21:11  |  Gil 13/03/08   128.   Margie @34 21:12  |  GABE1 13/03/08   129.   David Israel, I am surprised you would make such bogus analysis 21:12  |  Ibrahim 13/03/08   130.   Ibrahim the sole authority to decide whats not bogus 21:30  |  David Israel 13/03/08   131.   Johdep from Brussels 21:39  |  David Israel 13/03/08   132.   Making SENSE of Haaretz STATISTICS (part 1 CORRECTION) 22:01  |  Gil 13/03/08   133.   111 22:04  |  Respectfully 13/03/08   134.   Margie comment 110 22:05  |  Johdep 13/03/08   135.   Ibrahim 22:12  |  Danite 13/03/08   136.   ziggurat 22:21  |  Danite 13/03/08   137.   # 110 you are wrong... 22:37  |  Rami 13/03/08   138.   Danite to Ziggurat 22:39  |  johdep 13/03/08   139.   Israel and it,s racist citizens (Jews) reach a new low. 22:54  |  Labhras 13/03/08   140.   I Wouldn`t Either 22:54  |  Thomas 13/03/08   141.   "34 The Bigot from Tel Aviv on her 2nd Apartheid 22:58  |  Labhras 13/03/08   142.   Racist Paradise 23:20  |  Lee Kaplan 13/03/08   143.   To #42 - Saud -- Speak up to your leaders 23:23  |  Slibovitz 13/03/08   144.   GABE1 you are reading the map wrongly 23:23  |  Gil 13/03/08   145.   Ibrahim the sole authority to decide whats not bogus 23:24  |  David Israel 13/03/08   146.   #99 THANK YOU 23:43  |  5th generation 13/03/08   147.   #60, O-Dog...well said, good post! 00:35  |  Silvienne 14/03/08   148.   Rami 00:39  |  Danite 14/03/08   149.   # 117 Danite 01:07  |  Swiss (Dino) 14/03/08   150.   # 66 Oh Good.My Favorite Deborah is Back! 01:20  |  KATHY 14/03/08   151.   Johdep 02:29  |  GABE1 14/03/08   152.   Rami #118 02:51  |  GABE1 14/03/08   153.   # 105 Candida Kosher buildings in Brooklyn.This I find Totally 03:36  |  JOSH 14/03/08   154.   Israeli Jews racist? This is what Durban is about 03:41  |  peacelover 14/03/08   155.   Some of my best friends are Arabs... 03:44  |  peacelover 14/03/08   156.   http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020295.php 03:51  |  Oddvark 14/03/08   157.   It`s because Jews are bad. 100 british % want 05:10  |  17 14/03/08   158.   Most countries have this same problem 05:15  |  Michael Canham,M.D. 14/03/08   159.   What % of West Bank Arabs... 06:28  |  Smooch 14/03/08   160.   Why Should Jews Have to Make the Choice? 06:44  |  Ron 14/03/08   161.   proof of jews being discriminant 06:48  |  VIPER 14/03/08   162.   How many of those 50% chose......... 08:27  |  Deborah 14/03/08   163.   #134 labarse of arabia reports on the total 09:22  |  v ictor hardman 14/03/08   164.   to #144 Swiss Dino 15:36  |  nina 14/03/08   165.   #155 Deborah 18:36  |  Question Mark 14/03/08

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