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There I found, for example, the phrase "ochel bemitbah hapoalim," "eats in the workers 'cafeteria," which referred to someone who was broke and harks back to the days when, as Sela notes, workers in the Jewish state were actually Jewish, and cheap kitchens were set up to provide the poorest with basic food.
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