Changes in the design of the urban space of the Arabs of Haifa during the Israeli war of Independence

This article investigates the changes in the size, communal make-up and location of the Haifa Arab population as affected by the war, and subsequently until 1950. This time-span was the first period in which the area of the dwellings of the Haifa Arabs took shape. From 1950 onwards considerations and attitudes towards the spatial movements of the city's Arabs changed. In the discussion we shall try to shed light on tendencies that may clarify later developments in Haifa's character as a mixed city in the state of Israel.