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The thing that sparked my interest here is a sidenote in one of the cited Wikipedia articles: > Not all Jews immigrating to Israel from European countries are
by runarberg 3y ago
The thing that sparked my interest here is a sidenote in one of the cited Wikipedia articles:
> Not all Jews immigrating to Israel from European countries are of Ashkenazi origin (the majority of French Jews are of Sephardic, and some Jews from the Asian Republics of the USSR are Mizrahi), and the Israeli government does not distinguish between Jewish communities in its census. [1]
That is how the Israeli government doesn’t track European vs. MENA ethnicity, instead leaving it up to studies to guess. And it took me on a rabbit hole of trying to figure out why that is. It feels very odd to separate between Arabs and Jews, but not allow Jews to identify as Arab-Jew in the population statistics.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Jews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Jews