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The Ministry of Minority Affairs and the Status of Israel's Palestinian Citizens, 1948-1949

Brandeis University · Mandel Center for the Humanities · Room 328 · Waltham · MA · Waltham

Anat Ovadia-Rosner, a Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Law School, examines Israel's short-lived Ministry of Minority Affairs, set up to deal with the Palestinians who remained inside Israeli territory during the 1948 war, and argues that the institution shaped how their citizenship is understood today.