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Evolving, educating: Israel's Gypsy community
Roi Mandel
Published: 27.10.13, 00:01
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1. "prejudice"?
tom ,   toronto, canada   (10.27.13)
"Police allege the Roma woman claimed to have given birth to six children in less than 10 months, while 10 of the 14 children the couple had registered as their own are unaccounted for." this is about criminals, caught forging documentation, and trafficking children. if israeli roma do not wish to be blamed for this, they can start by not making excuses for gypsy criminals. as the sages of the talmud once said: "dina di malchuta dina".
2. Very interesting, and in the Old City of all places.
bob k ,   orlando fl usa   (10.27.13)
Like most I had not heard of Gypsies in Israel and in the Old City of all places. As a young child I northern England I met Gypsies who went door to door selling clothes pegs, scrubbing stones (for stone doorsteps) and other things for spring cleaning. My mother warned me not to trust them but she bought from them. I was fascinated by their dark skin, black hair and eyes, they also offered to read palms and tea leaves. They still travel around England and I saw them in their traditional wooden caravans in southern England in the 70s. I am glad that they are being well treated by the Jerusalem municipality - all the best to them,
3. Much violence in Old City Gypsy area
CheckItOut ,   Jerusalem Israel   (10.27.13)
Most tour guides will attest that the area where the Gypsy quarter is around the Lions Gate also part of the Moslem Quarter is violence prone pickpocket prone beggar prone Interesting to know if there is any connection . There and the Damascus Gate connected by the same streets are also Anti Israel .
4. Gypsie community a state within a state
Berk ,   Amsterdam   (10.27.13)
and therefore encounter many problems in western nations. Many Dutch gypsies do not want to obey our law by not sending their kids to (secundary) school and continuing (unofficial) child marriages. So they choose for staying uneducated and poor. It is a shame they send their kids for begging and stealing whilst receiving all kind of social welfare.
5. Israeli Gypsy ??????!!!
sameer ,   jerusalem   (10.27.13)
The Only relations to Israel is their life under occupation
6. to #5 Gypsies are nomadic, they don't have
lili   (10.27.13)
any land. they are not even part of the middle east, their origin is from India.
7. #5, Not true.
Jake   (10.29.13)
The Jerusalem Gypsy community are all either Israeli ID holders or full Israeli citizens.
8. Jake(7)-They asked and got citizenship
Israeli citizens   (10.30.13)
In 2012, all of them asked and got full Israeli citizenship. The Arab "spring" is causing many minorities who lived among the Arabs to get closer to Israel. It's for other minorities too.
9. #5 buffoon
Buba Buba ,   Mud   (01.30.14)
If that's the case then why do they want to be a part of Israel and not Palestine, genius?
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