Arabization of social work in Israel’s native Arab minority: potential and obstacles

Ibrahim Farid Mahajne · Arnon Bar‐On

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In 2006, the Israeli Ministry of Welfare recognized the BSW degrees of two Palestinian and one Jordanian institutions, which enables their Israeli-Arab graduates to work in Israel’s social services and thus potentially assist in indigenizing social work in the country’s minority Arab society. Based on 38 interviews with some of these graduates, their supervisors and colleagues, this research found that such indigenization is indeed beneficial to many of the people they assist but encounters substantial obstacles in gaining ground. It is suggested that introducing studies on Arab society into Israel’s schools of social work, stressing its religious base and the interventions derived thereof, and increasing the number of their Arab lecturers would help advance this indigenization process.

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