refugees
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The ma’abarot housed many of the approximately 650,000 Jewish immigrants and refugees who arrived from across the Arab world in the years following Israeli independence in 1948.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
But the organization, like many similarly focused humanitarian groups, is fighting for its survival amid a global backlash against refugees and migrants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Like so many waves of refugees before and after, these are people who took huge risks to survive, and many of them, like Omar, are thriving.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
Salih said that too often, what begins as a temporary solution for refugees becomes permanent, with children born in displacement settlements becoming adults there with children of their own.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
And even after the fall of the Third Reich, they spent years as refugees.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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