I should probably have reported under "reflections", an issue that a number of people mentioned to me during my stay in the Holy Land: Russian immigration. Since 1990 and the end of the cold war, Russian Jews have been the single biggest ethnic group to have made their home in Israel, nearly 2 million of them. And with them, apparently, they have brought organised crime on an unprecedented scale, along with some of the most racist and intransigent views towards the Palestinian people.
Israel is also a very popular tourist destination for Russian people; the Dead Sea seemed to throng with them almost exclusively, though from my naive perspective I should say they seemed like a pretty friendly bunch: I was photographing one group who had completely covered themselves in the famous black healing mud, when they insisted I join them to be pictured along with them- this group certainly projected a very warm and happy vibe.
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