The Mystical Soul of the Negev's "Black Hebrews"

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At the end of the 1960s, African-Americans settled in Israel, saying they were coming down from Judeans. Badly seen by the Hebrew state, they sang their desire for a Promised Land on a soul that smells of groove and faith. The fate of this strange community relegated in the middle of the desert reveals the identity fractures of Zionism.