Palestinian Emerges Against the Odds as Israeli Soccer Star
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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