#OtD 9 Jul 1959 the Wadi Salib riots were sparked in Israel when police shot Yaakov Elkarif, a Mizrahi Jewish immigrant. The Palestinian neighbourhood was destroyed in 1949, and poor Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origin placed there https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10909/wadi-salib-riots
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