Oct 9, 2023

roll up your sleeves

just had to repair a puncture in a car tire. local tire shops are open and working but very slow. No Arab workers, who usually do the actual work and quickly. Owners are doing it themselves now, rolling up their sleeves and getting to work probably the way they did when they first went into business, so it is also much slower, with lines of cars waiting to be serviced... 

We are learning how much we rely on the Arabs.. off the top of my head, the public transportation systems are messed up because the Arab bus drivers are not working right now, some of the supermarkets are messed up because their Arab employees are not working, the mechanics and car places, garbage collection is slow and less frequent, probably road maintenance and many others things in our daily lives will be slow and different in the coming weeks and months....






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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 09, 2023 6:48 PM

    You wrote "Arabs." Did you mean Palestinians or Israeli Arabs? If the latter, why are they not working?

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    1. Rafi G.October 09, 2023 6:55 PM

      I dont know the answer to your question, which is why I didnt specify. I think it is a mix of both, but for these types of jobs it is mostly Palestinian. as far as I know all the local stores that normally employ Arabs (again, not sure what type but I think mostly Palestinian) are right now not.

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  2. DebbyOctober 10, 2023 9:43 AM

    There are fewer buses because the military needs the buses and because a lot of the drivers have been called up. Garbage collection is also affected because a lot of the garbage collectors were called up.

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