Yesterday we went to the supermarket (after two months) and observed a tall mongol middle-aged man and a big eskimo woman cleaning the floors. Asked about them and the Arab employee told me that they speak only Russian and are freshly arrived immigrants. To provoke, I asked: Are they Jews? She grimaced. I assume they are from BiroBidjan and their grandmother was Jewish. Welcome. We are expecting 40-50,000 new immigrants in 2020, many from the former SSSR, France and the USA (the Jewish community has been hit hard and frightened by the corona). These are large numbers for this small country.
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