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Mending Fences
Feeling economically isolated,
Israeli Arabs reach out to Jews.
between 14 Mile & Orchard Lake Road .
(between Ilame Appliance & In Style Furniture)
David DiChiera, General Director
Featuring the popular
and light hearted
melodies and waltzes .
of Johann Strauss.
This audience favorite
includes plotting
husbands, scheming
wives and dazzling
disguises!
Performed in English
FREE OPERA TALK
one hour prior to
performance
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The 2003 Spring Season
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JOHANN STRAUSS II
DIE FLEWERMAUS
MAY 17-25
5/ 9
2003
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inside Israel proper. With 42,000 resi-
dents, it is the second largest Arab
enclave within Israel's pre-1967 bor-
ders, after Nazareth.
Jerusalem
Most Israeli Jews don't know of the
fter a long and winding
beautiful view from the top of the hill
drive through the narrow
— and they wouldn't care to check it
alleys of the congested
out. For some Israeli Arabs, however,
Israeli Arab town of Umm
el-Fahm, one finally gets to the prize — the reality of the fence is motivating
them to try to mend fences with the
a mountain with a breathtaking view.
Jewish majority: As Israel
On the left lies the green
celebrated its 55th birthday
and brown carpet of Israel's
this week, some Israeli
Jezreel Valley. In front are the
A barbed wire
Arabs appear to have redis-
biblical hills of the northern
security ft nce
covered their Israeli identity.
West Bank, checkered with
separates northern
the white rooftops, of
Jerusalem and the
Palestinian settlements and
West Bank.
Intifada Aftermath
red-tile roofs of Jewish ones.
This could have looked like
Two and a half years ago,
an earthly paradise were it not
days after the Palestinian
for the new, ugly fence that cuts
intifada (uprising) began, residents
through the attractive scenery, a bitter
rampaged at the entrance to Umm el-
reminder of the political reality that
Fahm, cutting the major Wadi Ara
denies both Jews and Arabs the pleas-
traffic artery and assaulting drivers
ures this place could have offered.
who appeared Jewish. Since then, Jews
The fence was erected only a few
have avoided Umm el-Fahm, not
weeks ago, part of a security barrier
patronizing its restaurants, discount
under construction along Israel's bor-
furniture stores and olive oil shops.
der with the West Bank to prevent
In fact, Israeli Jews largely avoid
Palestinian terrorists from crossing
Arab areas anywhere in the Galilee
into Israel — and which might one
since the October 2000 riots. With an
day form a border between Israel and
upsurge of terror attacks along the
a Palestinian state.
Wadi Ara road and in the neighboring
Umm el-Fahm lies west of the fence, Jewish towns of Afula and Hadera,
GIL SEDAN
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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