Volume 38, Number 12 · June 27, 1991
The Great White Hope
By Avishai Margalit
Many of the immigrants who arrived in Israel from the Soviet Union in 1990 came off the plane carrying dogs in their arms. This seemed odd, since Jews are not noted for their friendliness to dogs. An enterprising journalist soon reported that the immigrants were trying to take with them out of Russia anything they could sell in Israel. There weren't any carpets left, but they had heard that well-to-do young Israelis in Tel Aviv were buying dogs as pets.
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