In recent years we have witnessed the move of middle-class Arab families in Israel to Jewish cities that lack the facilities to provide them with cultural services. This presentation will exmaine the housing characteristics of these families, and the ways in which they change the spatial structure of the cities to which they move, as well as the effect of this process on mobilizing a new discourse of rights.
Dr. Manal Totry-Jubran is an associate professor at the Law faculty - Bar Ilan University. Her main fields of interests are: Law and Society, Legal Geography, Multiculturalism, Minority Rights, Planning and Building Law, Local government. In 2018 she was selected by “Calcalist” newspaper and “Bank Hapoalim” as one of ten Young Promising Arab leaders in the Arab Society. In 2019 she was awarded the “Gorni Prize”, by the Israeli Association of Public Law young researchers for Excellent young researcher in public Law. In 2015 she was awarded the Ma’of scholarship for outstanding Arab students, The Council for Higher Education.
