The Moroccan Jewish pig farmer preaching peace in Israel
With one side of his family having lived through the Holocaust, and the other through the Inquisition, Bruno Frydman knows a thing or two about discrimination and racism – and the horrors they can lead to. As a half-Ashkenazi, half-Sephardi Jew who grew up in Morocco, he also knows a thing or two about being a minority who has found a way to live at peace with one’s neighbors.
And as the owner of a rather unconventional, to put it mildly, business for a Jew in a Muslim country – Frydman runs the largest pig farm in Morocco – he also knows a thing or two about doing his own thing.
His is definitely a unique background, the 60-year-old will allow, and one that has informed and shaped his understanding of the world: He hates prejudice. He believes in the possibility of coexistence. And he feels no need to toe a common line.
This week, Frydman brought his values, beliefs and independent thinking to Israel. He was among a 100-strong delegation of Jews who came to learn firsthand about the Israeli-Palestinian situation – and to express what they see as the need for an end to settlement building, and the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
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