Israel’s Great Divide: Are Jews of Middle Eastern, North African and Spanish Descent Discriminated Against in Israel?

Israel’s Great Divide: Are Jews of Middle Eastern, North African and Spanish Descent Discriminated Against in Israel?

 

“Israel’s Great Divide” is a 47 minute long documentary (provided below) from Al Jazeera exploring the deep-rooted tension between Israel’s Ashkenazi Jews and the Sephardic and Mizrahi communities. With quotes from Israelis of different ethnic backgrounds, this article summarizes the main points of the documentary, including the challenges of integration and discrimination facing immigrants following the founding of the state and today, the socio-economic gap between Ashkenazi and Mizrahi/Sephardic communities, and the steps some Mizrahi Jews choose to take in order to successfuly integrate into an Ashkenazi-dominated society.