The Arab citizens of Israel are the country's largest ethnic minority. They are colloquially referred to in Arabic as either 48-Arabs or 48-Palestinians, denoting the fact that they have remained in Israeli territory since the Green Line was agreed upon between Israel and the Arab countries as part of the 1949 Armistice Agreements. According to several sources, the majority of Arabs in Israel now prefer to be identified as Palestinian citizens of Israel. International media outlets often use the term "Arab-Israeli" or "Israeli-Arab" to distinguish Israel's Arab citizens from the Palestinian Arabs residing in the Israeli-occupied territories. They are formerly, or are descended from, those Arabs who belonged to the British Mandate for Palestine through Palestinian Citizenship Order 1925. Speakers of both Arabic and Hebrew, they self-identify in a wide range of intersectional civic, national, and religious identities.
Israeli Arabs at a Land Day rally in Sakhnin, 30 March 2010
Seif el-Din el-Zubi, member of the first Knesset
A monument to residents of Arraba killed in the Arab–Israeli conflict
Arab Israelis from Shefa-'Amr demonstrating in front of the Haifa court building with Palestinian flags
The Arab world, formally the Arab homeland, also known as the Arab nation, the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa. While the majority of people in the Arab world are ethnically Arab, there are also significant populations of other ethnic groups such as Berbers, Kurds, Somalis and Nubians, among other groups. Arabic is used as the lingua franca throughout the Arab world.
Eid al-Fitr mass prayer in Morocco
Palestinian schoolgirls in Gaza lining up for class, 2009
Salah Zulfikar and Faten Hamama at the premiere of Bain Al-Atlal ("Among the Ruins") in Cairo, 1959
A women's rights protest in Egypt, 2011