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
Public sentiment toward refugees and migrants has also hardened elsewhere, creating a crisis for nonprofit aid groups.
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
While it aimed to help asylum seekers and refugees "to achieve their full potential" it did not include any specific commitments to provide better access to education for older teenagers.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
We all hoped it might be the Allies—from the refugees we had heard such terrible things about the Red Army.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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