Wadi Salib riots
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The Wadi Salib riots were a series of street demonstrations and acts of vandalism in the Wadi Salib neighborhood of Haifa, Israel, in 1959. They were sparked by the shooting of a Moroccan Jewish immig
Wadi Salib residents demonstrating in front of a Haifa police station after the shooting of Yaakov Elkarif
Development town
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Development towns were new settlements built in Israel during the 1950s in order to provide permanent housing for a large influx of Jews who fled or migrated from Arab and Muslim countries and Holocau
Wadi Salib riots
…ethnic discrimination against Mizrahi Jews. Israeli scholar Oren Yiftachel characterizes the riots as "the first wave of Mizrahi protest outside the [development] towns." On July 9, 1959, police confronted a Wadi Salib resident, Yaakov Elkarif, who was drunk and disturbing the peace. When he began behaving erratically…
Mitzpe Ramon, a development town in southern Israel in 1957
A ma'abara near Nahariya in northern Israel in 1952