Not Just a Land for the Jews

       This weekend I truly felt that I saw all of Israel, both in it's great and terrible areas. Usually when I think of Israel I think of the tourist-filled streets of Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, of the crowded areas of the Shook. However, this weekend my mother and I drove through areas of South Tel Aviv on our way to Shoham, and I saw what had been in hiding from the tourist books. The area was very run down, with lots of immigrants from different places. I saw shocked that this area was only a few minutes drive from  downtown Tel Aviv. For those who stayed at Tzuba this weekend there was an option to walk around in this area, and after seeing it for myself I would, without a doubt, want to go there and learn the history of how so many Somalian, Sudanian, Ethiopian, and other immigrants ended up in Israel.