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Sabra is a term used to describe a Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
 born in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. In contrast, an oleh (masculine) or olah (feminine) is a person who immigrates to Israel under Aliyah
Aliyah

Aliyah refers to Jewish immigration to Greater Israel. The opposite action, Jewish emigration from Israel, is referred to as Yerida ....
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The word sabra derived from the Hebrew name for the prickly pear cactus
Cactus

A cactus is any member of the spine plant family Cactaceae, native to the Americas. They are often used as ornamental plants, but some are also Crop plants....
, "tzabar," and related to the Arabic word for aloe/cactus, "sabr," which means patience. The allusion is to a tenacious, thorny desert plant with a thick hide that conceals a sweet, softer interior, i.e., rough and masculine on the outside, but delicate and sensitive on the inside.






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Sabra is a term used to describe a Jew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
 born in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. In contrast, an oleh (masculine) or olah (feminine) is a person who immigrates to Israel under Aliyah
Aliyah

Aliyah refers to Jewish immigration to Greater Israel. The opposite action, Jewish emigration from Israel, is referred to as Yerida ....
.

The word sabra derived from the Hebrew name for the prickly pear cactus
Cactus

A cactus is any member of the spine plant family Cactaceae, native to the Americas. They are often used as ornamental plants, but some are also Crop plants....
, "tzabar," and related to the Arabic word for aloe/cactus, "sabr," which means patience. The allusion is to a tenacious, thorny desert plant with a thick hide that conceals a sweet, softer interior, i.e., rough and masculine on the outside, but delicate and sensitive on the inside. The first use of the word to describe native-born Israelis is claimed by the journalist Uri Kesari, who published an essay, "We Are the Leaves of the Sabra!", in Doar HaYom on 18 April 1931.

The sociological characteristics of the sabra were examined by Oz Almog in his book "The Sabra - The Creation of the New Jew."

In the 1980's, when television in Israel was still black and white and aired several hours a day, the Israeli children's show, Ma Pit'om ("What on earth?" or "You don't say!," ?? ?????) featured as its star the talking cactus Kishkashta; Kishkashta
Kishkashta

Kishkashta was the main character in one of the first Israeli Educational Television shows, Ma Pit'om , written by, among other screenwriters, Tamar Adar....
 was a Sesame Street
Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an Television in the United States educational children's television series and a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both edutainment....
-style felt puppet who introduced himself with a solitary song.

The "sabr" is also a national symbol for Bedouins. In their folklore it is also known as a symbol of patience and perseverance.

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