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Class Mobility Is Relatively High in Israel at Least Among Jews

Ashkenazi with academic parents or Mizrahi with uneducated parents: Who earns more?

May 07, 2015 12:05 PM

I am Ashkenazi. My parents have degrees and are the scions of pioneers who arrived from eastern Europe before Israel’s...

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