| Zusammenfassung: | The focus of this paper is the image of Arabs, Palestinians, and Islam as reflected in textbooks for primary and secondary school levels published in Israel since the mid-80s and intended for use by Jewish pupils, and relevant textbooks written in the late seventies but not discussed in previous studies. Previous studies have shown that Israeli textbooks aided in the creation of prejudices against Arabs and negative stereotypes of Arabs. Therefore, my main question will be: have there been changes in widely distributed textbooks since the seventies and early eighties, when the problem of negative treatment and stereotyping of Arabs in general and Israeli Arabs in particular, current in Israel and among Israeli youth, became a matter of concern amongst the more enlightened sectors of Israeli society as well as within a large section of the educational establishment. I will discuss second through sixth-grade readers in state schools, two Geography textbooks for grades 4-6 in state schools, a reader for grade 6 in religious state schools, a History book dealing with the Middle Ages for the eighth grade, History and Civics textbooks for eleventh and twelfth grades. Before analysis of the textbooks themselves, it is worth raising several introductory points.
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