Yousef T. Jabareen is a human rights scholar, lawyer, and community activist. He is the founding director of the Arab Center for Law and Policy, Dirasat, based inNazareth. Dr. Jabareen, who is himself an Arab-Palestinian citizen of Israel, has for twenty years been advocating for the equal treatment and full equality of the Arab-Palestinians which make up one fifth of Israel's population. Dr. Jabareen teaches courses on law and social change, minority rights and the legal status of Palestinian in Israel Israel in the law faculty of University of Haifa and in the education department at Tel-Hai College.