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1972 CIA document analyzes Ashkenazi-Sephardic tensions in Israel

One of tens of thousands of records published on the American intelligence agency’s website recently describes the social difficulties faced by the State of Israel a year before the Yom Kippur War: ‘The overwhelming majority of Oriental Jews are drawers of water and hewers of wood; the Ashkenazim are concerned …

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