Mizrahim definition
Mizrahim. (Mizrahi in the singular) means Orientals or Easterners and refers to Jewish immigrants who came to Israel in the 1950s from Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
Mizrahim literally means "Easterners." In Israeli discourse it basically refers to Jews of the Middle East, including North Africa, and Jews from the Balkans (Shemer 2005, 8). Please also see my discussion of the subject in the Introduction, particularly on pages 22-33.
Examples of Mizrahim in a sentence
In this view, the intellectual infrastructure for the subsequent cooperation between Matzpen and the PLO was created.112 Extending the Zionism-as-racism paradigm to the Mizrahim was, from the perspective of Matzpen members, the next logical step.
Matzpen thus published a number of articles claiming that Zionism discriminated against the Mizrahim.
Though predominantly Ashkenazi, the group attracted a number of Mizrahim, including Alan Albert (later Ilan Halevi, a PLO representative in Europe and a former PLO vice minister), a French-born son of a Yemenite Jew who moved to Israel in 1965 after a detour in the United States.