NEW DELHI, April 15 -- This article deals with the status of Arab Christians in Israel and the several challenges faced by them as minorities. In the broader context of the conflict between the Arabs and the Jews, the Christian communities remain a highly ignored community in Israel. They are almost seen nowhere in the picture. First, it is primarily due to the numerical domination of Arab Muslims as an Arab category. Secondly, the Arab-Israel conflict is loosely connected with Zionism vs Palestinian Arab Muslims. Hence, Christians are a less focused group in the larger context of the minority in Israel.

Christians have been invisible in the political imagination of Israel since its formation despite it being the birthplace and inhabited...