Original sentence: Mizrahi Jews, Arab Jews or Oriental Jews (מזרחי "eastern", Standard Hebrew Mizraḥi, Tiberian Hebrew Mizrāḥî; plural מזרחים "easterners", Standard Hebrew Mizraḥim, Tiberian Hebrew Mizrāḥîm) are those Jews of Middle Eastern origin; that is to say, their ancestors never left the Middle East.Moshe Katsav, current President of Israel
Edited sentence: Mizrahi Jews, Arab Jews or Oriental Jews (מזרחי "eastern", Standard Hebrew Mizraḥi, Tiberian Hebrew Mizrāḥî; plural מזרחים "easterners", Standard Hebrew Mizraḥim, Tiberian Hebrew Mizrāḥîm) are those Jews of direct Middle Eastern ancestry and origin; that is to say, their ancestors never left the Middle East.Moshe Katsav, current President of Israel, and first Mizrahi to be appointed to such office.This Mizrahi demographic majority, however, does not correlate to the equal distribution of Israeli wealth and political power, which until today has remained largely an Ashkenazi domain.Today, the Arab Mizrahim are said to account for approximately 50% of the Israeli population, while another 18% is composed of non-Jewish Arab Israelis, and the remainder being largely comprised by European Ashkenazim.With an initial flood of 200,000 Mizrahi immigrants and refugees into Israel in the late 1940's, and more throughout the 50's, combined with fertility rates mirroring their non-Jewish Arab peers, they became a majority by 1968