Israeli Young Arab Men

Ahmad Igbariya Rabea Yaseen

Muhammed Abo Hosein

Submitted to professor Kevin Graziano

June 20, 2012

What are some of the difficulties that Young Arab men in Israel encounter?

Those who decide to build a house on an unauthorized area will surely face this

despicable outcome too. This wreckage is for a house which was demolished recently in

my village. Needless to mention that the house was built on the owner’s own land; his

land was and still for agriculture use only. Since there is no place to build new houses in

the village limits, many people decide to build their houses illegally hoping that one day

the government will accept to expand the limits of the village and change their land type

from agriculture use to construction use. We can see that their hopes and dreams were

demolished too and berried under these remain s.

If the government finds out that your house was built illegally they will send you an

order to destroy it by yourself or they will come and destroy it for you.

As a young male who is about to build a house I ask, Where to go and how to

improvise?

Ahmad Igbariya – Musherfa village

This picture shows how people somehow succeed to improvise and build

houses legally. As you can see the houses are built randomly. Everyone

who gets a green light to build a house in his backyard or above the

parents house will start building at once. Some new houses are extremely

close to each other as shown in the middle of the picture and on the right

side you can see three houses built hierarchically above the parents

house.

Can you imagine how bothering and complicated this issue is? Again, as a

young man I need to build a house and get married. I want my child to

open his room window and see a tree in our garden not the neighbors

laundry hung on a rope.

Ahmad Igbariya – Musherfa village

This is a picture of my neighborhood , you can see that the

buildings are so crowded, compact, and contiguous.

Actually, there are no places or spaces to build new

buildings. Each male should build new floor above his

parent’s house. I think it’s a difficult problem or issue that

we all suffer, and I hope to find new solutions that lead us

to build houses easily. Rabea Yaseen – Tamra Village

This is my cousin’s house , he is called Adam. He is 28

years old. He doesn’t have the ability to buy a piece of land

and to build new home so, he decided to build another

floor above his parent’s home because he didn’t have

another choice. We can see the difficulties that each one of

us will face in the future in connection with building.

Rabea Yaseen – Tamra Village

It’s a wonderful picture for my charming Romanh .

we are 1000 person in a space of 500 meters * 1000

meters. We can see that there are an empty large

space but our perfect government don’t want to give

us the permeation to build.

Muhammad Abo Hosain – Romanh village

Imagine yourself with other three families in one small

building. You cant even breath easily. You always hear

your neighbors talking. You cant feel comfortable, and

we are still without a solution.

Muhammad Abo Hossain – Um El Faheem city