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Ethnic harmony in an Israeli city you never heard of

Lod, home of Ben-Gurion International Airport, wants to show the world its peaceful mosaic of cultures living side by side with history and high-tech.

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Spreading religious-Zionist ideology, pushing Arabs out : The contentious movement taking root across Israel

Spreading religious-Zionist ideology, pushing Arabs out : The contentious movement taking root across Israel
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In Lod unrest, Arab fury against settler Jewish newcomers boils to surface

Residents of working class city say riots tapped into tensions with Garin Torani, a group of national-religious newcomers that reject being anti-Arab and say they are there to stay

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Ring of Fire

Goodbye coexistence? Israel s Jewish-Arab relationships up in flames Photos: Flash 90 With reporting by Yonaton Birnbaum It was a night of flames that no one from Lod, a mixed Jewish-Arab city near Tel Aviv, will forget in a hurry. As the sirens wailed last Tuesday and passersby ran for cover, the sky was alight with dueling Qassam rockets and Iron Dome interceptors, and the earth burned with the light of torched cars as an Arab mob rampaged. “My hometown has turned into a battlefield” was the thought that flashed through my mind as I passed masked Arab gangs just five minutes from my home. Lod has always been a mixed city, home to both Jews and Israeli Arabs. But the scenes I was now witnessing were the furthest thing from the quiet coexistence of the past. With stones in their hands, the Arabs seized control points, blocked roads by lighting fires, and vented their anger on parked vehicles, security cameras, and road signs. And the police were barely visible. Here and there

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