At first, Tefahot residents received Christina with open arms when she arrived at the moshav to look for a home, assuming that she had just made aliyah. After finding out that she was in fact a Christian from Romania, and her husband a Druze from the Galilee, residents began making threats.
“The moment they found out he was Arab, the threats began,” Christina said. “They informed me that they wouldn’t accept the young children to the kindergarten, and they wouldn’t allow them on the school bus.
“One of the neighbors said rocks would be thrown at us, and another neighbor threatened to burn down the house with the children in it,” Christina added.
The two violent attacks on the house prompted its landlord to cancel the contract she had signed with the Khatibs. “This is sheer racism. The moshav wants to supervise which people live in it,” the landlord said.
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