Mixed Cities News Today

From the blog of Julia Hack at The Times of Israel

In mixed Jewish-Arab cities like Haifa, Acre and Lod, memories of the 2021 outbreak of violence between Jewish and Arab Israelis still linger. But the experience has since brought two young people in Lod, who had to rebuild their businesses, even closer together.

Members of Knesset and representatives of several Israeli organizations convened in the Knesset on Wednesday to discuss the “violence, incitement and racketeering by Arabs against Jews in the Negev, the Galilee, Jerusalem and the mixed cities,” during which they warned of a growing trend of nationalistic violence against the Jewish state. Against the background of…

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