Before rage flared, a push to make Israel’s mixed towns more Jewish

Years before the mixed Arab-Jewish city of Lod erupted in mob violence, a demographic shift had begun to take root: Hundreds of young Jews who support a religious, nationalist movement started to move into a mostly Arab neighbourhood with the express aim of strengthening the Israeli city’s Jewish identity.

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