"Ruth Dayan can be credited with creating an industry of ethnic works in Israel. In the early 1950s, Dayan's job was to place agricultural counselors in the newly-settled moshavim [agriculture-based communities] in order to train the new immigrants from countries including Yemen, Iraq, Morocco and Iran. Such training would enable the newcomers to make a living off the land."



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