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Advice for Sudanese refugees going to Israel

April 24 09

Know who you will call when you get to Israel.  Have phone numbers of family and friends and at least 20 shekels Israeli money to make a phone call.
1) “Hotline for Migrant Workers” http://www.hotline.org.il/english/index.htm
75 Nahalat Binyamin Street / Tel Aviv, 65154, Israel / Tel. 972.3.560-2530
2) Elisheva, an organization for the support of refugees org: 050-7519558
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Arabic translation question

April 24 09

The last two days I was in Cairo I made trips to all the bookstores I could find and bought enough arabic books to stuff my backpack.  Now I’m starting to translate them for practice and ran into one problem sentence.
How do you translate:
كان أخوه وأخَوَاتُة البنات يكبُرونه بِعدَّة سَنَوات
My best guess is:
He had brothers, [...]

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