even the claim of essentially segregated lives is bogus of course lives aren't integrated since these are two different cultures with different customs and languages but what separation exists is purely voluntary some arabs prefer to live in an arab town village and that's understandable most arabs send their kids to arab school so they can study in arabic however some send their kid to a hebrew speaking school i had an arab classmate for instance whose father was a department head in the city hospital by the way many arabs live in towns with a jewish majority and there's no law against that and no one prevents them from doing so several cities in israel have substantially mixed populations including jerusalem haifa jaffa lod ramle beer sheva and others there's no segregation and no separation