TEL AVIV, July 4 — Ayelet Movsowitz, a Jewish Israeli, peers out the car window as her ride veers off the highway and follows the signs to an Arab village.

"Are you crazy?" she asks in an opening scene of an episode of Israel's version of the television reality show "Wife Swap." "Don't tell me I am going to have to cook all day, kabobs and what not. Oy. I'm in an Arab village. I just hope it's not a hostile village."

Meanwhile, Amal Ahmed Abdullah, 28, her Arab Israeli counterpart, slowly walks past a large Jacuzzi in Mrs. Movsowitz's house about 90 miles north, in the Galilee region of Israel.

Her mood dampens when she examines the contents of the refrigerator. "There is nothing spicy here," she says, pronouncing this a typical European Jewish home. "A real Ashkenazi fridge. They don't know how to cook."