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In honour of the desert generation; The Arab Jews of Egypt, Morocco and Iraq had much to offer the nascent Israel - but its founding fathers feared their contagion.

Publication: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Publication Date: 09-FEB-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: In honour of the desert generation; The Arab Jews of Egypt, Morocco and Iraq had much to offer the nascent Israel - but its founding fathers feared their contagion.(Features)

Article Excerpt
Byline: MARINA BENJAMIN

NOT THE ENEMY: ISRAEL'S JEWS FROM ARAB LANDS by Rachel Shabi (Yale, [pounds sterling]18.99)

ADD THE number of Israeli Jews from Arab lands -- from Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen, Syria, Egypt, Iraq -- to the population of Arab-Israelis and a rather surprising statistic emerges: 60 per cent of Israel's population is Middle Eastern. Peel away the mythology about hardy pioneers from Poland and Hungary reclaiming Biblical land and you uncover another, prior group of "pioneers", Arabicspeaking Palestinian Jews, living in the Holy Land for centuries and tending the land peacefully alongside their Muslim neighbours.

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