Volume 45, Number 9 · May 28, 1998
The Other Israel
By Avishai Margalit
Somewhere in the south of Israel, far from Tel Aviv but not very far from Gaza, lies the poor, sleepy town of Netivot. In the election for Prime Minister in 1996, the results for Netivot were clear: 86 percent for Netanyahu, 11 percent for Peres. Netivot was established in 1957 as a 'development town.' Nearly all its reluctant early residents had been new immigrants from Morocco and Tunisia, and today they still live there with their descendants.
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