Ayelet Tsabari
By Ayelet Tsabari
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Opinion It’s Time Israel Believed the Victims in the Yemenite Babies Affair
Between 1948 and 1954, hundreds of children of immigrant families, about two thirds of them Yemenis and the rest of other Mizrahi background, disappeared from hospitals and transit camps in Israel. Parents were told that their children had died, though no bodies or death certificates were presented. Seventeen years later, many of the children received…
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Opinion How Ronit Elkabetz Gave Mizrahi Women Like Me Permission To Dream Big
The first time I saw Ronit Elkabetz in a movie, I didn’t find her beautiful. Her striking, sharp features seemed too strange and dark. And her intensity made me uncomfortable. A high school student at the time and an aspiring actress (a regrettable phase), I had bought into the beauty ideals the Israeli media had…
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Opinion Mizrahi Artists Are Here To Incite a Culture War
The lineup outside the Tel Aviv nightclub snaked until the end of the block, but Yonit Naaman and I bypassed the crowds and walked to the front door. People eyed us enviously as the bouncer let us through. Inside, we were giddy over the VIP treatment, joking that it was payback for all those times…
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