Considering contradiction, tension, and incompleteness exist between the two collective identities of the Arabs in Israel, the civil and the national.

The collective definition of the Arabs in Israel as “a stateless minority” is important for the promotion of their political and social status as an indigenous minority and as citizens of the state.

Giving Arabic names to streets in Israel’s mixed cities can be an opportunity to realize spatial equality and can also be a way of forming relations of acceptance.