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The Coronavirus Crisis Is Bringing Israel's Jewish and Arab Citizens Together


(Atlantic) Yossi Klein Halevi - Israel is facing its first national threat that has nothing to do with the Arab-Israeli conflict. In the coronavirus, Israel's Arab and Jewish citizens are facing a crisis that is bringing us together. Israeli media regularly feature stories of Arab-Jewish intimacy in the quarantine wards. Israel's Yediot Aharonot published a four-page photo essay of Arab and Jewish nurses, featuring Arabs as Israeli heroes. Israel's health-care system is fully integrated. Nearly a fifth of Israel's doctors, a quarter of its nurses, and almost half its pharmacists are Arabs. Arab doctors head hospital departments and emergency rooms; one heads a hospital in the Galilee. Jews and Arabs encounter one another in maternity and cancer wards. The writer is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.
2020-05-01 00:00:00
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