Givat Hamatos is an area where primarily Ethiopian and Russian olim are learning to live together as Israelis.

THE DETRO I T JEWIS H N EWS

Mixed. Neighbor

Only it's by design as Ethiopian
and Soviet Jews learn to live together
in a caravan.

PHIL JACOBS EDITOR
GLENN TRIEST PHOTOGRAPHY

This is the fourth installment of an occasional series of stories
chronicled during the April 18-28 Michigan Miracle Mission.

ivat Hamatos
wasn't on the tour.
It is a place of
trailers on the
outskirts of Jeru-
salem. A cab dri-
ver tells us we'll proba-
bly have trouble finding
another taxi back to our
hotel.
We're dropped off at
the entrance to this
neighborhood, and the
climb is steep to a road
where we see a bus stop,
a convenience store, a
doctor's office and finally
the town office and, as

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they call this place in
Israel, a caravan.
From the crest of the
hilly town, we can see
Israel's new soccer stadi-
um and not too far from
it, the new mall, "the
biggest one in the Middle
East," according to the
cab driver.
There are no chain
stores or cafes. There is
largely metal and con-
crete and stone. The
metal of the tiny homes,
two families to a trailer,
the concrete of the road
and sidewalks, and the

