An Israeli survey found that large numbers of Jewish high school students view Arabs as uneducated, uncivilized or unclean — and vice versa. The Haifa University poll interviewed 1,600 students across the country, with 75 percent of the Jewish students harboring negative impressions of Arabs. Arab high school students also had negative impressions of their Jewish peers.
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