I Was a New Immigrant for a Month: The Aliyah from Yemen and the African Problem
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This entry contains material that some people may find disturbing.In the living quarters of the [North] African [Jews] in the transit camps, here’s what you’ll find: you’ll find filth, card games, and money, drunkenness, and whoring. Many of them are afflicted with eye, skin, and venereal disease. Not to mention burglary and theft. Nothing is safe against this antisocial element, and no lock can seriously close…
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