The tense relationship between Arab citizens and the police has neither began nor ended with the events of October 2000, although these have negatively affected perceptions of police and the state (Hermann et al., 2017). Rather, they are embedded in the history of the Arab minority in a Jewish state and ongoing debates of identity, rights and citizenship. Three events that took place during the final stages of writing this book demonstrate the severity of the relations between the police and the Arab citizens. In January 2017 police shot and killed Yacoub Abu Al-Qia’an in the Bedouin unrecognized village of Um-Al-Hiran. Police entered at night, heavily armed, to demolish houses and evacuate the residents of the village, where a new Jewish community will be built. Abu Al-Qia’an was shot driving away from the scene and his car hit and killed a police officer. Police and the Minister of Internal Security were quick to state that Abu Al-Qia’an was affiliated with terrorist groups and was shot while attempting to kill police officers. It was only weeks later, when evidence contradicted the claims, that the minister admitted that “mistakes were made” (Times of Israel, 2017).