Officially, no Palestinians live in the 'Jewish' city of Upper Nazareth. The city's elegant website appears only in Hebrew and in Russian. When I was there recently, I called a spokesperson to ask about numbers but he wouldn't give me a straight answer. 'I am standing in front of a house with "There is no power but in God" written in Quranic Arabic over the door,' I said. 'And I know there are two Palestinians on your city council.' 'We still do not have enough information about the numbers,' was the reply.

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