Ugly Outbreak

Ethnic tensions flare up

Angry crowds blocked streets and stoned a bus. Vandals painted swastikas and vicious slogans on houses and cars and even on the home of a government minister. One message, scrawled on a wall in a prosperous neighborhood, suggested that the area's residents be sent "to Auschwitz and Treblinka," two of the most notorious Nazi death camps of World War II.

An ugly outbreak of anti-Semitism in the U.S. or Western Europe? Not at all. It was part of an unusually severe flare-up of ethnic tension in Israel between Sephardic Jews, who came from North Africa and other parts of...

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