The Arab Sector (Urban & Rural Arabs, Druze, Circassians, Bedouins)

Israel can never be a truly democratic society until its Arab citizens are accorded true equality and fully integrated into all aspects of public life.

Therefore, Ale-Yarok will work to eliminate the discrimination suffered by the Arab sector. Ale-Yarok will work to allocate funds aimed at eliminating the disparity in education, infrastructure and employment opportunities between the Arab and Jewish sectors; to integrate the Arab sector into all governmental agencies, including the cabinet; to improve and reform the conditions and status of women in the Arab sector, with the objective of achieving full equality between women and men. To that end, Ale-Yarok will support affirmative action in senior official appointments for women in the Arab sector and will work to eliminate the disparity between the Jewish and Arab sectors as regards the quality, availability and affordability of all social service geared to women.

 

 Foreign Workers

Ale-Yarok abhors the widespread abuses of foreign labor, which damage Israel’s reputation abroad and weaken its moral fiber.

Therefore, Ale-Yarok will work to enforce the laws regulating mandatory minimal living conditions for foreign workers and those limiting the amount that may be deducted for said accommodations; to increase the penalties for withholding of wages; work to stop the persecution of foreign spouses of Israeli citizens, and to accord them full social benefits; to eliminate the practice of incarcerating illegal workers for weeks and months. Illegal aliens will be deported within a week, during which they shall be given the right to appeal deportation; to apply state health benefits to foreign workers;