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Kiryat Malahi, Israel. 6.08am
The early morning sun shone weakly down on the homes of the Falasha Jews in the settlement of Kiryat Malahi. The place would be described as a shanty town in any other part of the world, but people were shy of calling places in Israel by such third world names, even though the inhabitants were Africans airlifted out of Ethiopia in the 1990s.
Avi Kabede sat in one of the basic rooms tapping on a slim laptop, his powerful smartphone a portable wifi hotspot, as he listened to the rhythmic swish of his mother’s broom on the concrete floor. She swept the meager property daily before preparing a simple meal for the men who had left before dawn to find work. Mostly they wouldn’t have found anything, but they still tried for the rare laboring jobs, attempting to
