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How did The Transit Camp portray immigrants from Iraq in Israel?
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Hebrew literature
S.Y. Agnon.
Shimon Ballas’s 1964 novel Ha-Ma'abarah ("The Transit Camp") is recognized as one of the first works in Hebrew literature to recount the absorption of Jewish immigrants from Iraq from the immigrant's own perspective. The novel portrays the struggles these individuals faced while living in an Israeli transit camp, providing a narrative that centers on their specific experiences and challenges during the integration process.1