Eleven years ago, Ibrahim, a 14-year-old Palestinian Arab from Judea, came to pre-1967 Israel for the first time.
Today, Ibrahim is Avraham, a yeshiva student at a Charedi yeshiva in Bnei Brak.
When he first crossed the pre-1967 Green Line, Avraham was an illegal worker residing in the coastal city of Netanya.
After moving to Israel, Avraham – then still Ibrahim – became acquainted with Jewish law, Jewish tradition, and the Charedi community through a friend an employer who provided him with a place to stay, and eventually introduced Ibrahim to his family.
“I met a man who really helped me. He gave me a place to live. I worked for him for a very long period of time. He introduced me to his family, a Charedi family – they’re religious,” Avraham told Hadashot 12.
Spending his teenage years among haredi Jews in Bnei Brak and Netanya, Avraham picked up the basics of Jewish culture and tradition.










