Examines Israel and its policing of minorities through the perceptions and experiences of four distinct minority groups.

Guy Ben-Porat is Professor and Department Chairperson at the Department of Politics and Government at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He is the author of Global Liberalism, Local Populism (2006), which won the Ernst-Otto Czempiel Award of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, and Between State and Synagogue (Cambridge, 2012), which was awarded the Shapiro Best Book Award and the Israeli Political Science Association Best Book Award.

Introduction. Policing citizens; 1. Theoretical Framework; 2. Police and policing in Israel; 3. Arab citizens: national minority and police; 4. The skin color effect: police and the Jews of Ethiopian descent; 5. The religious factor: ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredim); 6. Integration and citizenship: Russian immigrants; Conclusions.