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    Ma'abarot (Hebrew: מעברות, singular: Ma'abara Hebrew: מעברה) were immigrant and refugee absorption camps established in Israel in the 1950s, constituting...
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    initially resettled in refugee camps, known variously as immigrant camps, ma'abarot and development towns. Development towns were subsequently considered...
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    Ma'barot, often called Ma'abarot, is a kibbutz in Emek Hefer in central Israel, in the wider region of the Sharon Plain. Established in 1933 and located...
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    end of 1950 and their residents were moved to existing ma'abarot. Conditions in the ma'abarot (tent cities) were harsh. There was poor hygiene and widespread...
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  • and North Africa. By early 1950, immigrant camps were converted into ma'abarot, where living conditions became better and tin dwellings replaced tents...
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    village lands. These ma'abarot housed mainly immigrants from Iraq who arrived as part of Operation Ezra and Nehemiah. Ma'abarot at the time were treated...
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    billions to the Israeli economy. Meir assisted in building over a hundred ma'abarot (Hebrew: מַעְבָּרוֹת), temporary immigrant camps with crude tin-roofed...
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    A member of Kibbutz Ma'abarot on guard duty, 1936...
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    sent to transit camps, known initially as immigrant camps, and later as Ma'abarot. Many were also initially housed in reception centers in military barracks...
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  • later transformed into ma'abarot (transit camps), where tin dwellings were provided to house up to 220000 residents. The ma'abarot existed until 1963. The...
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    Jews arrived in Israel. Many were placed in transit camps, also known as Ma'abarot, that were meant to temporarily host the new immigrants to Israel. Nevertheless...
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    place names Ulpan Kibbutz Youth village One Million Plan Immigrant camps Ma'abarot Development town Austerity Organizations World Zionist Organization Jewish...
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    immigrants arrived as refugees and were housed in temporary camps known as ma'abarot; by 1952, over 200,000 people were living in these tent cities. Jews of...
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    money or possessions and many were housed in temporary camps known as ma'abarot. By 1952, over 200,000 immigrants were living in tents or prefabricated...
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    conditions of the Ma'abarot, stating her opinion that "the most controversial issue in this respect is not the outcome (e.g. the ma’abarot) of the choice...
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    refugees were placed in rudimentary and hastily erected tent cities (ma'abarot) often in development towns on the peripheries of Israel. Settlement in...
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    place names Ulpan Kibbutz Youth village One Million Plan Immigrant camps Ma'abarot Development town Austerity Organizations World Zionist Organization Jewish...
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    hardships of a Sephardic immigrant family in the rough conditions of ma'abarot, immigrant absorption camps in Israel in the 1950s, satirizing "just about...
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  • place names Ulpan Kibbutz Youth village One Million Plan Immigrant camps Ma'abarot Development town Austerity Organizations World Zionist Organization Jewish...
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  • place names Ulpan Kibbutz Youth village One Million Plan Immigrant camps Ma'abarot Development town Austerity Organizations World Zionist Organization Jewish...
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  • place names Ulpan Kibbutz Youth village One Million Plan Immigrant camps Ma'abarot Development town Austerity Organizations World Zionist Organization Jewish...
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    place names Ulpan Kibbutz Youth village One Million Plan Immigrant camps Ma'abarot Development town Austerity Organizations World Zionist Organization Jewish...
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    According to Ben-Gurion's diary, the Yemeni children in the Israeli ma'abarot or tent transit camps were dying like flies. Children were often separated...
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  • place names Ulpan Kibbutz Youth village One Million Plan Immigrant camps Ma'abarot Development town Austerity Organizations World Zionist Organization Jewish...
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    offering of the first sheafs in Leviticus 23:10. In 1957, residents of the ma'abarot in the vicinity moved to Omer. In 1962, it was renamed Tomer and became...
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    relatively high number found themselves in refugee camps in Israel known as Ma'abarot before being given permanent housing. The agents behind the 1950-1951...
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    place names Ulpan Kibbutz Youth village One Million Plan Immigrant camps Ma'abarot Development town Austerity Organizations World Zionist Organization Jewish...
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    place names Ulpan Kibbutz Youth village One Million Plan Immigrant camps Ma'abarot Development town Austerity Organizations World Zionist Organization Jewish...
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    place names Ulpan Kibbutz Youth village One Million Plan Immigrant camps Ma'abarot Development town Austerity Organizations World Zionist Organization Jewish...
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  • place names Ulpan Kibbutz Youth village One Million Plan Immigrant camps Ma'abarot Development town Austerity Organizations World Zionist Organization Jewish...
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