This paper examines the significance of how spatial inequality explains the health inequalities between Palestinians and Jews in Israel. Israeli policies have created extreme spatial segregation between Palestinians and Jews that is a defining feature of Jewish–Palestinian relations. Furthermore, spatial segregation of Palestinians constitutes a structural condition that limits chances of individual social mobility and socio-economic achievements. This paper seeks to encourage consideration of how spatial inequalities contribute to health inequalities by examining gaps in life expectancy between Palestinians and Jews in Israel. The findings show that the highest level of life expectancy in Israel is among Jews living in dominantly Jewish regions, where only small numbers of Palestinians reside. In the space shared by Jews and Palestinians, where most of the Palestinians reside, Jews have higher life expectancy than Palestinians, yet lower than Jews in the dominantly Jewish regions. The lowest life expectancy is observed among Palestinians living in the shared space. The paper concludes that the lower life expectancy among Palestinians relative to Jews is a result, in part, to their confinement to segregated, peripheral places, characterised by a low level of socio-economic development.

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以色列巴勒斯坦人和犹太人之间的健康不平等：极端空间隔离的作用

本文探讨了空间不平等如何解释以色列巴勒斯坦人和犹太人之间的健康不平等的重要性。以色列的政策在巴勒斯坦人和犹太人之间造成了极端的空间隔离，这是犹太-巴勒斯坦关系的一个决定性特征。此外，巴勒斯坦人的空间隔离构成限制个人社会流动和社会经济成就机会的结构性条件。本文旨在通过研究以色列巴勒斯坦人和犹太人之间的预期寿命差距，鼓励考虑空间不平等如何导致健康不平等。调查结果表明，以色列的预期寿命最高的是生活在以犹太人为主的地区的犹太人，那里只有少数巴勒斯坦人居住。在犹太人和巴勒斯坦人共享的空间里，在大多数巴勒斯坦人居住的地方，犹太人的预期寿命高于巴勒斯坦人，但低于犹太人占主导地位的地区的犹太人。居住在共享空间中的巴勒斯坦人的预期寿命最低。该论文的结论是，与犹太人相比，巴勒斯坦人的预期寿命较低，部分原因是他们被限制在以社会经济发展水平低为特征的隔离的外围地区。