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32A April 2021 ISRAEL & THE JEWISH WORLD

BRIEFS BRIEFS

STUDY FINDS INCREASE vette warship, the INS Magen, to the an Israeli-born girl who is in love with many Israeli Arabs do not speak He- continued from previous page
IN ANTI-ZIONISM country from Germany. “The adren- a Holocaust survivor. It takes place brew well enough to do so.
AT U.S. UNIVERSITIES aline on a missile ship is crazy,” says against the background of the early Lt.-Col. David Ron, the com-
Most U.S. campuses are not awash in Klempert. “You always feel like you’re years of the State of Israel and the in- mander of the battalion, said, “My
antisemitism, nor are they hotbeds of part of something secret. You’re doing flux of immigrants from Morocco. battalion is more of a ‘comfort zone’
antisemitic forms of anti-Zionism. Yet something that no one knows you did, The book was chosen for transla- for them: They speak Arabic here and
on hundreds of campuses, a new set of which is kind of a shame, but still – it’s tion by Prof. Mohamed Elmedlaoui of hang around with people who are more
realities has emerged for Jewish stu- a good feeling.” the Mohammed V University of Ra- like them. But on the other hand, we
dents. Capt. Shira Klieger, 23, an elec- bat and was translated by his student, are also a home for those who tried to
Far-left antisemitism that express- tronics and defense officer, has served Dr. Ayashi Eladraoui. join other units in the IDF, but it didn’t
es a view of Israel that traffics in an- on all the Israeli Navy’s Sa’ar 5 ships. “I grew up in the town of Sefrou in work out. So instead of leaving com-
ti-Jewish conspiracies has increasingly Now her job is to make the Magen Morocco until I immigrated to Israel at pletely, they can come here.” Yet Ron
become normalized on U.S. campuses, operational. “My goal is to determine the age of 10,” recounted Bensimhon. stressed that whenever it comes to op-
where Jewish students are being de- when there is a threat to the ship, and “As an academic, I have studied erational actions, speaking in Hebrew
moralized as imperialists, racists and deploy the proper response so that Moroccan culture extensively. There is mandatory.
even Nazis and white supremacists. threat doesn’t hit the ship or any asset was always a warm corner in my heart In addition, there is an entire edu-
Students have increasingly report- we are defending, like a natural gas for the rich and multifaceted aspects cational and economic apparatus oper-
ed that they are afraid to express their drilling rig,” she explains. that characterize the Moroccan culture. ating within the battalion. They study
Jewish identity, including their support Twenty out of the 80 personnel As a Moroccan Jew, I feel that I have Hebrew at different levels as well as life
for Israel, lest they be excluded from who will be serving on the ship are come to realize a dream: the fact that skills, such as learning to go through a
campus life and the causes that they expected to be women. (Bat-Chen my works are read in my hometown is job interview or open a bank account.
care deeply about. Epstein Elias, Israel Hayom) a source of great personal pride.” (Udi Shaham, Jerusalem Post)
Hillel International reported that FIRST ISRAELI NOVEL The news follows the re-establish- NEW SAUDI POLL SHOWS
antisemitic incidents reached an all- TRANSLATED INTO ment of diplomatic relations between SHARP RISE IN SUPPORT
time high during the 2019-2020 aca- Morocco and Israel in December. (Tess
demic year. (Prof. Miriam F. Elman, MOROCCAN ARABIC Levy, israel21c.org) FOR ISRAEL TIES
Institute for National Security Studies For the first time, an Israeli novel has THE IDF BEDOUIN UNIT: A new public opinion poll commis-
- Tel Aviv University) been translated into Arabic in Moroc- sioned by the Washington Institute
co and will be sold in Moroccan book- PROTECTING ISRAEL’S shows that the Saudi public is increas-
WOMEN SERVING stores. BORDER, ADVANCING ingly open to contacts with Israel.
IN THE ISRAELI NAVY The groundbreaking novel, A Girl THE COMMUNITY 41% call the agreements between
Sgt. Jessica Klempert, 22, the first fe- in a Blue Shirt, was written by Prof. The IDF Bedouin Reconnaissance Bat- Israel and the UAE and Bahrain a
male machinist to serve on an Israeli Gabriel Bensimhon of the Steve Tisch talion protects the Israel-Gaza border “positive development,” while 54% la-
Navy missile ship, is responsible for School of Film and Television at Tel and is a ticket for Israeli Arabs to en- bel the agreements as negative.
monitoring the ship’s machines and op- Aviv University. ter Israeli society. Forty percent of the 37% agree that “people who want
erating its generators and motors. She The novel, published by Yediot battalion are non-Bedouin Muslim Ar- to have business or sports contacts with
was one of the four sailors entrusted Books in 2013, tells the love story of abs, Christians and Circassians. While Israelis should be allowed to do so,”
to bring Israel’s new Sa’ar 6-class cor- an immigrant boy from Morocco and these soldiers can serve in other units, continued on next page

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