Mizrahi

In Ashkenazi and most forms of Mizrahi Hebrew, the letter tav has two different pronunciations depending on whether a dagesh is present.

He's not Arab; he's a Mizrahi Jew.

Most Israeli Jews are Mizrahi or Sephardi.

Mizrahi Israelis tend to support the settlement enterprise because it has provided them opportunities they couldn't find in Israel proper.

Most Mizrahi Jews do not identify as Arabs, and this has always been the case.

Ashkenazi and Mizrahi Jews are closely related.

Jerry Seinfeld is half Ashkenazi from Hungary, half Mizrahi from Aleppo, Syria.

In a move aimed at avoiding the mistakes made by many of the Jewish institutions in which students have grown up, the guidebook encourages students creating new Jewish organizations to ensure that “JOCSM (Jews of Color, Sephardi, Mizrahi) feel included and comfortable,” to maintain a “[s]upportive network of closed spaces for marginalized people,” and to directly“[a]cknowledge and confront Ashkenormativity.”