Israelis
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Israelis are the citizens, nationals, and permanent residents of the State of Israel, a multiethnic state. The largest ethnic group is Jews who account for 75% of the population, the second largest et
Israeli girls in the 1960s, eating matzot—unleavened bread traditionally eaten by Jews during Passover
Circassian youth showcasing traditional male and female Circassian costumes in Israel
Ulpan for Vietnamese refugees in Afula, 1979
Meeting between Sudanese refugees and Israeli students, 2007
Mizrahi Jews
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Mizrahi Jews, also known as Mizrahim in plural and Mizrahi in singular, and alternatively referred to as Oriental Jews or Edot HaMizrach, are a grouping of Jewish communities that lived in the Muslim
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…Samaritans. Among Jews, 80% were born in Israel (sabras) and the rest are Jewish immigrants. Over 50% of the Jewish population is of at least partial Mizrahi descent. Early Israeli culture was largely defined by communities of the Jewish diaspora who had made aliyah to British Mandatory Palestine from Europe…
A Jewish family from Damascus, c. 1901
The Westerners street in Jerusalem, Israel; coined after the Maghrebi Jews
Children in a Jewish school in Baghdad, 1959
Yemenites go to Aden