RAMALLAH, May 5 (JMCC) - Israel's Palestinian population is deeply underrepresented in the state's public sector, despite efforts to redress the gap, finds a recent study.
Only 6 percent of civil servants are Arabs, even though they constitute 20% of Israelis, according to a parliamentary committee interim report presented to Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday.
“The principle conclusion deriving from the findings is that the law calling for appropriate representation of the Israeli-Arab community is not only not being implemented but is even being used as a pretext not to hire Arabs according to a predetermined ratio in keeping with the ratio of the Arabs in the general population,” the report stated.
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