In 2010 a three-meter-high wall was built to separate the Jewish and Arab neighborhoods.

Every day fewer people cross the lines between the Jewish and Arab neighborhoods.

Also, an aggressive voter registration campaign, particularly among the young and in ethnic African and Arab neighborhoods, added more than a million new voters to the rolls.

In Qadesiya, a predominantly Arab neighborhood, teachers bristled at the suggestion that Kurdish would replace Arabic as the main language for instruction.

At the social center in the town's overwhelmingly Arab neighborhood, the young men explain why.

Between the April 8-9, 1948, sporadic shooting broke out between the Jewish and Arab neighborhoods of Tiberias.

Nor is it the only sign of the hostility that surrounds him in this predominately Arab neighborhood.

Across the aisle of the small coffee shop in this heavily Arab neighborhood, a man from Jordan sneered.

But as the sense of physical danger from the bombings ebbs in this predominantly Arab neighborhood, many have begun asking a fundamental, and somewhat terrifying, question: why us?

"In the euphoria of 1967, we annexed 28 Arab villages that later on became Arab neighborhoods," he said.