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...nine months since Communist Poet Tawfiq Zayad was elected mayor, some surprising things have taken place in Nazareth, the largest (pop. 40,000) all-Arab city within the borders of Israel. New water and drainage pipes have been laid, three new schools have almost been completed and city council meetings have been thrown open to the public for the first time. Local tax collections have increased...
...have other plans," declared Zayad, 47, as he toured the city last week, wearing a yellow T shirt that bore the message RIGHTS TO NAZARETH MUNICIPALITY. "This city is terrible," he said. "There is not one library here, not one museum, not one sports stadium or traffic signal. City hall is an antiquity." Indeed, the city hall is a rundown pile of stone that looks much like a prison-which in fact is what it used to be. Zayad's father was an inmate there in 1936 after an Arab uprising against the British rulers of what was then...
...Jews. Lately there has been talk among the Arabs about trying to focus voting strength to increase their membership in parliament to twelve?a powerful bloc in Israel's fragmented politics. Last December the voters of Nazareth (pop. 40,000), Israel's largest Arab city, elected Tawfiq Zayad, a Communist, as their mayor...
...show of opposition to the expropriation plan, Tawfiq Zayad...
...suggest, Tawfiq Zayad's recent election as mayor of Nazareth [Dec. 22] may encourage Israeli Arabs to try to exert political power on a national scale. However, I do not see this as a catastrophe for Israel. In fact, a successful bid for political power by Israel's Arab citizens may prove that Israel's political system works for all her citizens, and that her democratic ideals are honored...