A rape is committed every 12 hours and other types of sexual assault every four hours. A network of voluntary organisations exists to deal with these problems on the therapeutic and educational fronts, but meagre government resources are devoted to the problem. They are guaranteed equal rights by the Declaration of Independence. Nevertheless, they are victims of institutionalised discrimination. Arab towns and villages receive lower levels of government funding than their Jewish equivalents.
Inequality also exists in education.
Finally, the Arab infant mortality rate remains double that of Jews. They live in a state whose definition as a Jewish State excludes or alienates them. The state itself may have the cultural character of the majority, but its relationship to citizens must be regulated by citizenship and not by their religious identity in short, I want Israel to become a state of all its citizens. The Zionist movement was always a broad coalition. One of the functions of the Declaration of Independence was to recruit the support of all these groups for the proclamation of the State, to paper over the cracks between them and to provide a united statement of principles for the nascent state.