The Israel people are a polyglot race. a "melting pot" like our own population. gathered from all parts of the world. There are the ancient settlements which have existed since time immemorial. tracing their history back to the days of the old kingdom. There are also communities which were established at the turn of the century. founded mostly by refugees fleeing from the pogroms of Eastern Europe. Since independence. though. the immigrants have poured in by the hundreds of thousands. Theentire Jewish population of 45.000 left their homes in Yemen to find a new life in Israel. free from the stigma of being secondclass citizens. The same things occurred in the other countries which are Moslem controlled. 110.000 flew in from Iraq. a like number came from Morocco. The majority of these immigrants. however. came from Europe. from the cheerless displaced persons camps. from the grim concentration camps. and the gutted ghettos. All came to build a nation free from tyranny. where children may laugh and play and friends may talk politics. The land which they did build is now a showplace.
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