Why is Israel such a dynamic melting pot and vibrant country? Here is one clue! 😊
"In Jerusalem’s rapidly gentrifying Musrara neighborhood, there’s a street sign reading “Black Panthers Way.”
Puzzled Americans may wonder why Israelis have paid tribute to the radical African-American group that terrified the establishment in the 1960s, but local residents know better: The sign is an homage to the Israeli Black Panthers, a group of Mizrahi youth who borrowed the name and some of the tactics of the American group to demand an end to the discrimination faced by Israeli Jews with roots in the Middle East and North Africa. ..."
Black Panthers protest in Tel Aviv, May 3, 1971. The sign at top reads, "Golda, teach us Yiddish," accusing the prime minister, Golda Meir, of favoring Jews from Ashkenazi, Yiddish-speaking backgrounds.
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