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Source: http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/arab-students-in-israel-are-turning-to-yiddish
Arab Students in Israel Are Learning Yiddish
(The National-UAE) Vita Bekker - Samah Jayosi, 24, a headscarf-wearing Muslim Palestinian citizen of Israel, is one of about 70 Israeli Arabs enrolled in courses at Bar-Ilan University's Rena Costa Center for Yiddish Studies, where they account for almost a quarter of the institution's students this year. For Jayosi, studying Yiddish is at least partly a bid to bolster coexistence between Israel's Jewish majority and Arab minority. Mohamad Eissa, 22, an optometry student at Bar-Ilan and enrolled in a Yiddish course, said he was concerned initially about discrimination. "I hesitated to come to this university, but the studies are good, I have both Jewish and Arab friends and haven't met with any racism," he said.