Definitions
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- noun A type of
refugee camp in Israel during the early 1950s, used mostly by new immigrants from North Africa and theMiddle East .
Etymologies
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From Hebrew מעבר.
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My mother-in-law laughingly remembers the barbaric conditions of the "ma'abara," refugee camps in the 1950s, providing tents or tin huts with no electricity or water as temporary accommodation.
Aish Weekly Articles 2009
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