Doms in Israel

Invisible to most Jerusalemites, between 1,200 and 3,000 of Dom reside inside the Lions’ Gate, in and around Burj Laklak Street.

In those years, the British John Wilson met Gypsies in the Majdal area west of the Sea of Galilee.

The poet Ludwig August Frankl visited Israel in 1856 and met a group of gypsies near the Nablus Gate in Jerusalem.

In 1890, the archaeologist Flinders Petrie met a group of gypsies in an open field near the city of Jaffa.

In 1909, an article was written in the "Haharot" newspaper, which told about the arrest of gypsies who were engaged in theft in Jaffa.