eSTWANAT  HAI  :

Reuven Abergel at Damascus Gate

 

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Twenty two years, since the day we left Morroco 

 

we didn't have any contact with Arabs

 

we would see them from a distance

 

but we didn't talk with them

 

 

 

When the borders were lifted, the first thing I did

 

me, my friends, my parents, my brothers and everyone

 

We walked down to this place to get to know the 

 

Arabs living here

 

we worked, we prayed, we sang

 

we would go hear live music  and listen to the songs of Umm kulthum, Abdel Wahab

 

Sami Al Mughrabi and Salim Halali and Zohra Al Fassiya

 

 

 

When I came from Morocco I lived here, near by

 

We used to pray three times a day

 

We would go to the Synagogue which was close 

 

to the Muslims mosque

 

while praying, we would hear the muezzin

 

and the Muslim prayers and our prayers were mixed

 

 

the way we heard them in Morroco