"A friend entered the salon and Nir greeted him with a firm handshake and the words ‘what’s up habibi’ pronounced with an Arabic accent. ‘Hey habibi, my blue-eyed man!’ the friend laughed good-naturedly when he mimicked his Hebrew, spoken with an Arabic drawl. Although the Arabic word habibi has become a word of everyday jargon in Israel, in this specific situation Nir used it as a subtle ethnic idiom to assert a common tie as Mizrahi." (source)

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