stay for the whole week and come back home only at the weekend. I will never forget the weekly trip on that bus; it was always full of Israeli soldiers because they were heading to a military base near al-Taybeh. That hour on the bus always seemed eternal. Along with other students from my village, we did not have a permit to leave the village to go and study in al-Taybeh, so we were afraid to speak with each other, consequently we never spoke on that bus, we were even afraid of breathing. We were so afraid because we saw other students being caught without permits and they were physically and verbally assaulted by the soldiers and detained until their parents would take them out from the police station and pay high fines for them to be discharged. Also, at the university level there was a fixed quota for Arabs. Each year only two Palestinians were allowed to attend each university in Israel. Also, in this case there were always questions about the few Palestinian students, who managed to obtain a student permit. Higher education was opened for us only after the 1980s. However, things did not really change. Today, it is true that Palestinian students inside Israel don't need permits to study, however, the barriers that they have to face in order to have access to universities are still tough and discriminatory. The education level in the Arabs schools is quite inferior from the Jewish-Israeli ones, which is the consequence of State discrimination in allocation of resources. Therefore, Palestinian students will be disadvantaged, compared to the Jewish-Israeli students, once they have to undergo the university entrance exam. This is why many Palestinian students have to go abroad in order to enroll in universities. Another example of today’s discrimination, which has its foundation in the military regime, is the fact that, until today, there are no industrial zones in Arab communities inside of Israel. It is almost impossible for Palestinians to get a permit to start an industrial activity,and this results in a lack of income for Arab municipalities, since industrial activities could increase the taxes paid to the Arab municipalities in Israel and help the municipalities to develop. All the industrial zones inside of Israel belong to Jewish-Israeli authorities, even if many of them are established on lands which belong to Arab villages. This is a clear economic discrimination policy implemented by the State of Israel, in order to ensure that there is no economic development and sufficiency within Arab villages.” Admission Committees Since the Kaadan case in 2000,115 two different frameworks for admission committees have been created to ensure that Palestinian citizens of Israel can still be denied the right to live in certain Israeli towns; these being the Israel Lands Administration’s Decision No. 1015116 and the Admission Committees 115 In 1995 the Kaadan family was denied by the Katzir Cooperative Association the right to buy a house in an Israeli town called Katzir. The argument was that the community only wanted Jewish residents. The Kaadan family took the case to the Israeli court and in March 2000 the Supreme Court ruled that the family could not be denied the right to move to Katzir. 116 Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, “Adalah Submits Amended Supreme Court Petition Demanding Cancellation of “Admission Committees” for Illegally Excluding Arab Citizens of Israel from Communities Build on State-Controlled Land”, 2010. Available at: http://www.adalah.org/ en/content/view/7112 34