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Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Umm al-Fahm, Israel

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t's time for noon prayers in this
Israeli Arab city and a jumble
of sneakers piles up outside the
doors of a mosque on the top floor
of a private high school for the sci-
ences.
Inside, the boys, led in prayer by a
math teacher, stand in two rows on
a soft green-and-beige carpet and
then kneel in unison. The $5.8 mil-
lion tab to construct the high school,
considered one of the top Arab
schools in Israel with its state-of-the
art physics and chemistry labs, was
picked up by the Islamic Movement.
Such support — helping fund
community needs not being met by
the Israeli government — is one way
the movement is gaining power and
influence among Israel's 1.2 million
Arabs.
"This vacuum has opened the
door for the Islamic Movement to
get in and provide alternative servic-
es," said Yousef Jabareen, a resident
of Umm al-Fahm and director of
Dirasat, a nonprofit that advocates
for socioeconomic and political

equality for Israel's Arab citizens.
The influence of the movement
— particularly its northern branch,
which preaches adherence to a
devout form of Islam and a code of
social isolation from Israel at large
— can be seen in the shift toward
increased religious observance
among some of Israel's Arab citizens,
the majority of whom are Muslim.
Critics say the movement's more
extreme elements preach a form of
nationalism that is actively anti-
Israeli and is radicalizing Israel's
Arab citizens. Its social service
tactics have been compared to the
work of Hamas in the Gaza Strip,
which similarly built a base of sup-
port among ordinary Palestinians by
providing social services not offered
by the Fatah-dominated Palestinian
Authority.
With its power base in Umm al-
Fahm, one of Israel's largest Arab
towns, the Islamic Movement in
Israel is drawing support with the
message that pride in Islamic roots
can overcome the feelings of sec-
ond-class citizenship to which Arab
citizens often feel relegated in the
Jewish state.

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