A disgrace to the social-democratic values of the early Zionists: Forty-five percent of Arab families in Israel are defined as poor, compared to 15 percent of families in the Jewish sector, according to statistics published on Monday by Sikui, an Israeli Arab association for social equality in Israel. In its report, the association claimed that "the government has not yet taken concrete and substantial steps toward correcting the continuing historical injustice caused to the Arab citizens." The Sikui report is largely based on information from the Central Bureau of Statistics, gathered between 2000 and 2001. The report contrasts with the recommendations for the improvement of the Israeli Arab's social conditions, as put forward by the Or Committee, which probed the clashes between security forces and rioters at the end of September 2000 that left 13 Israeli Arabs dead. According to the association, welfare allowances in Israel do not considerably alleviate the economic conditions of Israeli Arabs. It also claims that income supplements lift around 50 percent of poor Jews above the poverty line, whereas only one fifth of poor Arabs manage to cross the line.