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05/14/2008: "Arabs taking Jews' jobs"

Most of the customers do not usually realize that the woman who helps them in the mall to choose a pair of jeans, or the salesman for a hose for the garden, or ink for the printer, is an Arab resident of the Triangle, or Wadi Ara, or Ramle, or Lod or Galilee. But the number of
Arabs employed in the retail businesses or the services is growing, especially in the large chains and the telephone service depots.

Once, before the intifadas and the curfews, Jews would travel to Arab towns to do shopping. Today Arabs come in droves to the Jewish communities to sell in response to the needs of both sides - the economic interests of the employers and the socioeconomic interests of
the workers.

Moshe Rosenblum, CEO of Israel Malls, says the phenomenon stems, among other things, from the shortage of workers. "The chain stores pay minimum wage or a little more than that. A lot of Jews have become choosy, while many of the Arab women prove themselves to be very good sales people," he says. "An Arab salesman is prepared also to clean the
toilets and to work for minimum wage without fringe benefits. Jews, less so," says Adib Yihye, the owner of a manpower company from Kafr Kara.

[ Israel::arabs, usa::mexicans, europe::slavs... migration is finance-driven. ]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/983230.html