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Palestinian Emerges Against the Odds as Israeli Soccer Star

Palestinian Emerges Against the Odds as Israeli Soccer Star

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Mar 17, 2011
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Taleb Tawatha’s emergence as one of Israel’s brightest soccer talents is a tale of fighting the Israeli odds of being an Arab in a predominantly Jewish society, a black in a majority Palestinian white community and a scion of one of the Israel’s most disadvantaged, underdeveloped towns.

A shy, scrawny 18-year old whose family hails from Sudan, Tawatha ce…

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