Kafr Yasif is an Arab town in the Northern District of Israel. It is located 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) northeast of the city of Acre and adjacent to Abu Sinan and Yarka. The population of Kafr Yasif is half Christian (52.1%) with the rest Muslim (44.9%), and a small Druze community.
A street scene in Kafr Yasif, 2006
Ancient Jewish tombstone from Kfar Yasif
School in Kafr Yasif, 1950
An alleyway in Kafr Yasif, 1952, four years after its capture by Israeli forces
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