Leave your life, leave your homeland and embark on a new adventure in a foreign land.
For my mother and brother, immigration to Israel began one dark night in the winter of 1960. The agency messenger showed up at my grandmother's house, picked up the two older children, a small suitcase - and off.
How much trust my grandparents placed in the emissaries of the Jewish Agency, when they sent a 13-year-old girl and her 11-year-old younger brother to another country only on the basis of a vague promise that they would be cared for there.
Halfway to the beach, the car came to life.
The agency messenger cursed, pulled out a gun and ordered the children to get out of the car and hide in the bushes.
Immigration from Morocco was then illegal.
The late Rafi Vaknin and the late Marcel Roimi, who were caught distributing leaflets encouraging immigration, were interrogated and tortured in the Moroccan prison until their deaths. Luckily for my mother and her brother, they were rescued in another vehicle.
The tragic sinking of the illegal immigrant ship Egoz in January '61 led to the end of the period of illegal immigration from Morocco.
The Israeli government reached a secret agreement with King Hassan II on the expulsion of the Jews, provided that their declared destination was not the Jewish state.
This week marks the 60th anniversary of the start of Operation Yachin.
Between '61 and '64, about 80,000 Jews immigrated to Israel in a completely legal way, in a completely planned and organized manner.
Still, the vast majority of immigrants from North Africa were sent to serve as extras in Ben-Gurion's experimental play.
Grandma-Rachel Rachel used to occasionally go to Central Station and ask the bus drivers when they were leaving.
After the short survey she would get on the first bus that set off.
When asked where she should go she would answer "a nabib, no matter where you go, I have a last name".
Except for Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the central region - she was completely right.
And that's the outrageous thing about the whole story. From Shlomi to Dimona, every family photo from a wedding and bar mitzvah tells how the State of Israel paved the way for immigration from North Africa to the margins of Israeliness. My parents' generation and uncles, who managed to break out of the periphery, did so by superhuman forces and against all odds. Most of them as part of the security forces, another small part in business and a minority through studies. And yet it is the generation that pushed my generation to higher education, which were blocked in their face. No wonder the most educated people in my family are also the ones who immigrated to Israel last and were able to settle in Bat Yam and not in Yeruham.
60 years after Operation Yachin, the story of North African immigrants, as reported in the press this week, has well studied the new discourse. Every child in the periphery will tell you that it is over "eat me, drink me" and now it is the "good" peripheral era, we are responsible for our lives and improve them for the better despite the starting conditions at the bottom of the ladder. But the past continues to coil the present and distort the future. "How is it that to this day there has not been a prime minister who looks like me, or a Supreme Court judge who has the last name of one of my neighbors? How is it that all my lecturers at the academy were from the central region, or relatives of?", A friend from Dimona asked me this week. Because we have consolation prizes as winners in Master Chef and Star Born, another friend replied.
Luckily for Baruch Ben Asraf, Serge Harush and Claude Cohen Tanuji, they did not immigrate to Israel in Operation Yachin.
Who are these, you ask?
All three are North African Nobel laureates in exact sciences (immunologist and two physicists).
The State of Israel currently boasts eight Nobel laureates in the exact sciences, none of whom are from North Africa or Mizrahi.
It's not because of mental abilities.
The racist Israel of the 1960s took fine human material, and instead of giving it an equal opportunity - paved them to flourish the wilderness in cities for no reason and without their own economic base or territory.
Made them reluctantly supported.
Since Operation Yachin, many people from North Africa and the Israeli periphery have "advanced", but what?
Israel has made much more progress.
So what you want, say, it was the past, it's over.
But in the laws hidden from view, the monster that hides deep from the Israeli light continues to work.
The same monster that everyone denies exists, and it continues to divide resources unequally.
This week, David Ben-Shabbat, a rural space researcher and former kibbutz director, revealed that under the coalition agreement between Yesh Atid and the Labor Party, there is an innocent-looking clause about the transfer of huge tracts of land to lease the "rural space."
Who are these, you ask yourself.
Well, if you asked it was not you, and you will not get a crumb from the cake.
And what is "rural space"?
Kibbutzim and cooperative moshavim, which barely make up 5.6 percent of the country's residents, still control most of the land in Israel thanks to fathers who were once farmers.
However, following the Eastern Rainbow High Court of 2002 and the provisions of the Settlement Law, they were narrowly prevented from doing so on the land they received as they wished.
It is important to remember that agricultural land was given to the handful in question on such a scale for the purpose of agriculture and food security for all citizens of the state, and not to B & Bs and villas.
David Ben Shabbat, Photo: David Peretz
Ben Shabbat reveals that the "Admati" association, which represents a significant portion of the "rural area" localities, is promoting a precedent-setting bill that comes to curb the discretion of the Israel Lands Administration. A law that has one meaning: state lands that were leased as agricultural land at seven shekels per dunam, and which were marked as camp area mainly in kibbutzim and in some of the moshavim - will be owned by 1.8 percent of the population in a lease for generations. for a few years? 49 years. Does that seem like a lot to you? Well, multiply by four. Yes, a 196-year contract! And all this for only 3.75 percent of their true market value for each lease term.
Did you ring in numbers?
Very well, this is exactly what the invisible monster wants to happen.
Keep dealing with "survival", the main thing is not to understand how much we, our children and our children's children are going to lose.
Want an acre to build the house of your dreams on the sea?
A one-dunam plot of land on the beach, valued at NIS 5 million in kibbutzim such as Gaash, Galil Yam and Shefayim, will cost the patriarchal rights holders of these kibbutzim no more than NIS 187,000.
And why?
"Here in the land of ancestral covetousness."
But you live in Sderot, of course.
You are the sons and grandsons of "Oli Yachin", unfortunately you did not get to marry volcanoes and Shefayim girls.
So settle for a forgotten kibbutz to the Negev.
It has been said, in detail, in Kibbutz Ruhama, where a dunam is worth only about half a million shekels.
But for the southern kibbutz and the owner of the "rights" as stated, and for its "natural" next generation, this dunam will cost NIS 18,700.
Why?
Because that's how it is "here in the land of ancestral covetousness."
The language of "honorable" will already wash away and whiten every sin and sin, and surely also some representative Orientals will be found from the bottom of the cake to serve as an excuse leaf. It does not change the large numbers. If this law is passed, it means that the country's resources, and the money that accompanies them, will again be divided according to skin color and origin ("geographical" of course, as if there is a difference in Israel). Yes, I know the arguments of the grandfather who does not know "where his grandchildren come from", but according to the CBS data, even today, he saw what a miracle, money still knows what way to get infected and the professor knows what way to get away from.
I very much appreciate the work of the kibbutzim for the restoration of the State of Israel, and also the work of the Yachin immigrants, the magic carpet and Operation Moshe.
Still, 70 years after its rebirth, the State of Israel should promote civic equality and not serve as an association for the preservation of monsters Ltd. This justice today, it is our grandchildren who will shout at us under the heel of the boot - where were you when we stole our lives?
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