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Ariel Rosenthal, Orly Peli-Bronshtein, Dan Alexander

A Poor Man’s Kebab

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On the Hummus Route
On the Hummus Route

By Ariel Rosenthal, Orly Peli-Bronshtein and Dan Alexander

Published 2019

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With a 43.2% unemployment rate, Gazans suffer from poverty and lack of economic resources, and therefore hummus and falafel provide a solution for desperate Gazans.

“I work as a construction worker,” says Ahmed Fares, 39. “My salary is 50 Shekels (about $15) a day, so I cannot afford to buy 1 kilogram of meat that costs 60 Shekels (about $17). However, hummus and falafel cost 10 Shekels (about $3), and so thanks to them I can enjoy a warm, rich meal with my three children.”

For Fares and thousands of others like him, falafel and hummus are “rich alternatives to meat and kebab,” as he puts it. “In Gaza, you will find a lot of empty butcher shops, but you will not find one empty hummus and falafel restaurant.”
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