The Forum on Minority Issues Land and Housing Rights for Arab Minorities in Israel Rawia Aburabia- The Association for Civil Rights It is an honor to speak on behalf of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel. ACRI works intensively to address entrenched discrimination against Arab citizens, particularly in regards to discriminatory planning, building, and land distribution policies; inequitable access to public services and funding; violations of freedom of expression and political participation; racial profiling at airports; and the rights of Arab women. Israel’s Arab citizens are subject to discrimination based on their ethnicity. Lack of Arab equality has been documented in many studies and papers, and has been underscored in numerous court rulings, government decisions, state comptroller reports and other official documents. One of the areas that stand out in terms of discrimination towards Arab citizens is land allocation, planning and housing. My presentation will focus on land and Housing Rights for the Arab Bedouins. Introduction The Arab Bedouins of the Naqab are integral part of the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel, both as an ethnic and as an indigenous minority. Before the founding of Israel there were approximately 100,000 Bedouins, after 1948 only 10,000 remained. Approximately half of