The small communities are the visible tip of an iceberg of systematic, ongoing ostracism that affects a great many Israelis -- What is so terrible, G. asked me, about people in small communities wanting to choose their neighbors? ... what's so terrible about the fact that we don't want Arabs? They are genuinely unsuited to a community with a Jewish-Zionist character. G. is a young computer programmer from central Israel. His wife is pregnant. The dream of a hilltop community in the Galilee beckons him, and he thinks he and his wife, both hard-working college graduates, will join one. Let's start with the fact, I replied, that you haven't a chance of being accepted. G. was shocked. You're Mizrahi, a Jew of Middle Eastern origin, I explained, and your wife is the daughter of recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
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