[Israeli Civil Rights] Report: Much-needed tax money funneled away from Arab towns [to Jewish local authorities]

Ha'aretz
....Arab authorities receive only 0.2 percent of the taxes on government property on their land, while the majority of the money goes to Jewish local authorities, a civil rights group says.

In addition, the state has not built industrial areas and infrastructure facilities, which yield considerable taxes, in Arab communities. Other industrial areas were built on lands they say were confiscated from them, such as in Tziporit, Teradion and Afek.

"The government is practicing a deliberate policy of increasing the inequality between Jews and Arabs, conveying to the Arabs that they are not partners to the state's assets," said Ron Gerlitz, co-executive director of Sikkuy, the Association for the Advancement of Equality Opportunity......  Full story