Israelites And Religion

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Israelites maintain a conservative and traditional way of living. There aren’t many social classes, because the country shares a similar basic standard of living. The clothing among men and women say a lot about who an individual's religion and political beliefs. A devoted religious man would wear his yarmulke; skull cap, all the time versus a liberal Jew that would wear a white crocheted cap(Stanford). Moreover, Jewish women are expected to cover their heads and traditionally after marriage they shave their heads and wear wigs (Stanford). On the contrary, Arab men and women wear long robes to cover their entire body(Stanford). People have moved away from traditional forms of marriage, both Arabs and Jews had arranged marriages. However,

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