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Arab-Jewish tensions are almost background noise among crime rate and number of murders in Lod

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Eugr'me Moniyair, an Israeli Arab Christian with one of her best roses outside her home in Lod, Israel. She lives in a neighbourhood of the city where many of the streets are named after flowers and trees while across the city, some of the streets do not even have names.Heidi Levine/The Globe and Mail

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An Arab woman walks in a lot in Lod, in central Israel.Heidi Levine/The Globe and Mail

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Israeli Jew Salaman Ohana, 57, sits underneath campaign posters showing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside a Likud-Beiteinu Party office in Lod, Israel.Heidi Levine/The Globe and Mail

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Israeli Arab Ibrahim Sparga crosses a garbage-strewn creek using a makeshift bridge in the Israeli city of Lod.Heidi Levine/The Globe and Mail

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Israeli Jewish woman Chaya Maatuf, 23, waits to meet a friend in Lod, Israel. She says that she believes in equal responsibilities for both Jews and Arabs.Heidi Levine/The Globe and Mail

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Ethiopian immigrants in the centre of Lod in central Israel.Heidi Levine/The Globe and Mail

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Israeli Jewish shopkeeper Arieh Dayan with a delivery of balloons and flowers for a customer in Lod, Israel . He has had a shop in Lod for over 20 years.Heidi Levine/The Globe and Mail

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Khali Abed Al Ma'ati, 42, outside his home where a three-metre wall runs along the outskirts of the Arab Israeli community of Pardes Sneer, separating it from the Jewish Israeli community of Neer Svi in Lod, Israel.Heidi Levine/The Globe and Mail

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An Arab boy stands near a cement three-metre-high wall running along the outskirts of the Arab Israeli community of Pardes Sneer, separating it from the Jewish Israeli community of Neer Svi in Lod, Israel. Among the graffiti are the lines: “Lod is Arab” and “We're staying here despite the fence.”Heidi Levine/The Globe and Mail

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Israeli Pilcha, 21, outside his home in Lod, Israel. He was born in Uzbekistan and immigrated to Israel with his family when he was just a baby.His mother is a doctor and his father is an engineer.Heidi Levine/The Globe and Mail

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