MAPAI Committee for Arab Affairs – The Steering Committee for Construction of Establishment Policy towards Israeli Arabs, 1958–68

In 1957, after abandoning hope of any additional transfer of Arabs from Israel, MAPAI (the largest political party at the time) constructed its Committee for Arab Affairs. During the decade of its existence the Committee laid the foundation and the practical implementations that shaped and determined the discriminated status of Arab citizens in the different systems (economy, culture, education, livelihood, infrastructure) of the State of Israel. This policy, which, practically speaking, excluded the Arab citizens from Israeli society, has not yet changed, even after MAPAI's disappearance from the political scene, to be replaced in power by other parties.