ma'abara

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Hebrew מעבר.

Noun[edit]

ma'abara (plural ma'abaras or ma'abarot or ma'abaroth)

  1. A type of refugee camp in Israel during the early 1950s, used mostly by new immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East.
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