{"id":399,"date":"2026-05-08T11:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.qsm.ac.il\/QasemiARC\/?p=399"},"modified":"2026-05-10T09:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:52:17","slug":"the-status-of-arabic-in-israel-law-reality-and-thoughts-regarding-the-power-of-law-to-change-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.qsm.ac.il\/qarc\/the-status-of-arabic-in-israel-law-reality-and-thoughts-regarding-the-power-of-law-to-change-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"The status of Arabic in Israel: law, reality, and thoughts regarding the power of law to change reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"direction: ltr\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>Abstract\nThe status of Arabic in Israel gives rise to question. Israel is a rare case of\nan ethnic nation-state that grants the language of minority group with a\nlegal status which is prima facie one of equality. Both Hebrew and Arabic\nare the official languages of the State of Israel. What are the reasons for\nthis special state of affairs? The answer is threefold: historic, sociological\nand legal. In various ways the potential inherent in the legal status of\nArabic has been depleted of content, and as a result of that, as well as\nother reasons, the socio-political status of Arabic closely resembles what\nyou would expect the status of a language of a minority group in a state\nthat identifies itself as the state of the majority group to be. This answer,\nhowever, is another source of puzzlement how does such a dissonance\nbetween law and practice evolve, what perpetuates it for so long, is change\npossible, is it to be expected?\n<br><br>\nWe present an analysis of the legal status of Arabic in Israel and at the\nsame time we proceed to try and answer the questions regarding the gap\nbetween the legal and the sociopolitical status of Arabic. We reach some\nof our answers through a comparison with the use of law to change the status of the French language in Canada. One of these answers is that\ngiven the present constellation in Israel, the sociopolitical status of Arabic\ncannot meaningfully be altered by legal means.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u0644\u0645\u0639\u0627\u064a\u0646\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0642\u0627\u0644: <a href=\"\/QasemiARC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Arabic-Israel-Law-Review.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"\/QasemiARC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Arabic-Israel-Law-Review.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u0625\u0636\u063a\u0637\/\u064a \u0647\u0646\u0627<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AbstractAbstract The status of Arabic in Israel gives rise to question. Israel is a rare case of an ethnic nation-state that grants the language of minority<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-17","tag-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.qsm.ac.il\/qarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.qsm.ac.il\/qarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.qsm.ac.il\/qarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.qsm.ac.il\/qarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.qsm.ac.il\/qarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/site.qsm.ac.il\/qarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/site.qsm.ac.il\/qarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.qsm.ac.il\/qarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.qsm.ac.il\/qarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.qsm.ac.il\/qarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.qsm.ac.il\/qarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}