Mijal Bitton 是一位专门研究塞法迪和米兹拉希犹太社区的社会学家。
Mijal Bitton is a sociologist who specializes in Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish communities.
退休中将加迪·埃森科特（Gadi Eisenkot）回忆起，有媒体人建议他在10月27日的选举中，以父母在 1950 年代犹太移民临时营——马阿巴拉（ma’abarah）相识的故事进行竞选。埃森科特说，这个建议只有一个问题：他的父母是在一个基布兹相识的。评论员失望地说：“这故事太差劲了。” 对于关注选举的美国人来说，这段对话是一种好奇；对以色列人而言，它解释了一切。
Gadi Eisenkot, the retired lieutenant general who could end Benjamin Netanyahu’s nearly two decades in power on Oct. 27, recalls being advised by a media personality to campaign on his parents’ meeting in a ma’abarah, one of the transit camps for Jewish immigrants in the 1950s. There was just one problem, Eisenkot said: his parents met on a kibbutz. The pundit was disappointed: “That’s a lousy story.”To an American following the election, the exchange is a curiosity. To an Israeli, it explains everything.
马阿巴拉收容了大约 65 万来自阿拉伯世界的犹太移民和难民，这些人是在 1948 年以色列建国后几年陆续抵达的。即便世俗的欧洲阿什肯纳兹创始人对他们抱有轻视，国家仍接纳了他们。
The ma’abarot housed many of the approximately 650,000 Jewish immigrants and refugees who arrived from across the Arab world in the years following Israeli independence in 1948. The state took them in even as the secular European Ashkenazi founders looked down on them.