CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
In Israeli war on coronavirus, Arab doctors rush to the front
by Joshua Mitnick
April 16, 2020

…Though Arab doctors, nurses, and pharmacists have over the past decade become a familiar presence at Israeli hospitals and state-supported HMO clinics, the pandemic has shone Arab Israeli citizens in a new light: as essential foot soldiers and field commanders in the country’s struggle against the virus. That elevated stature comes, ironically, at a particularly fraught moment in Arab-Jewish political relations. Even as Arab Israelis, one-fifth of the population, have strengthened their parliamentary representation via a new alliance, the Joint List, they repeatedly have been the objects of hostile campaign rhetoric from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. READ MORE