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Reuven Abergel

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “moroccan - israeli social and political activist and a co-founder and former leader of the israeli black panthe”. Today it says “moroccan-israeli social and political activist and a co-founder and former leader of the israeli black panthers”.
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Reuven Abergel (Hebrew: ראובן אברג'ל, Arabic: رَؤوبين أبيرجل); born 1943 in Rabat in Morocco .1 Founder and leader of the Israeli "Black Panthers".2 Reuven Abergel emigrated to Israel with his parents and nine siblings from Rabat, Morocco. The family was situated in an immigrant camp in Pardes Hana from which they fled to the border-line Jerusalem neighborhood of Musrara. As a child Reuven was a victim of the radiation experiments carried out by the government as part of an American sponsored medical experiment. His first political action was to hand out leaflets in Musrara during the popular uprising of Morocan immigrants in Wadi Salib, Haifa. Reuven Abergel became involved in the Israeli Black Panthers following the arrest of his friends, and his house soon became headquarters for the movement. He went on to become one the key figures in the Israeli Black Panthers movement , and as such was present at the group's infamous meeting with, then Prime Minister, Golda Meir. Since then has been active in the struggle for social justice and peace in Israel/Palestine as a member of various groups and movements. He currently serves on the board of the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow and was also recently elected to the leadership of Tarabut ("connection"), a joint Jewish-Palestinian political party for peace and equality in Israel.3

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “moroccan - israeli social and political activist and a co-founder and former leader of the israeli black panthe”. Today it says “moroccan-israeli social and political activist and a co-founder and former leader of the israeli black panthers”. Read the current article and compare.
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moroccan - israeli social and political activist and a co-founder and former leader of the israeli black panthe

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moroccan-israeli social and political activist and a co-founder and former leader of the israeli black panthers

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