Israeli Arabs Develop a Liking for Matzo

(Economist-UK) Hours before the start of the Passover holiday this week, a housewife hurried out of a supermarket with a carton of matzo, the unleavened bread eaten to recall the Biblical exodus from Egypt. Except that this woman was wearing a hijab and the market was in Umm al-Fahm, an Arab city where the Jewish population is roughly zero. "My children can't get enough of it," she says. "I'll probably come back for more later this week."


2017-04-13 00:00:00

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