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Flight and expulsion of Jews from Arab countries

Movement of Jewish communities out of Arab and other Muslim-majority countries, mostly to Israel, from 1948. Israel marks it as an expulsion; historians differ on the causes country by country.

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Dates
1948–1972
Also known as
Departure of Jews from Arab countries

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  • Israel Israel's Foreign Ministry counts about a million in 1948 and 30,000 left by 2020 According to Israel Primary record 1
  • Israel received more than 340,000 between 1948 and 1951, by the Foreign Ministry's count According to Israel Primary record 1
  • Israel Gat's archival study of Iraq, 1950–51, as reviewed by Daniel Pipes Scholarship & press 2
  • Israel the 1941 mob violence against Baghdad's Jews, which USHMM calls a turning point Scholarship & press 3
  • Israel Ya'akov Meron, a former Israeli negotiator, argues in 1995 that Arab states coordinated the expulsion Scholarship & press 4
  • Israel the Foreign Ministry's count: a million in 1948, 30,000 in 2020 According to Israel Primary record 1
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  1. 1948–1972 Flight and expulsion of Jews from Arab countries
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  1. Marking the expulsion of Jews from Arab countries and Iran, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Consulate General in Hong Kong, 3 Dec 2024. Primary record
    In 1948, there were 1,000,000 Jews that lived in Muslim countries. In 2020, only 30,000 Jews remained in those countries.
    More than 340,000 Jews, including his own family, left the Islamic world to Israel between 1948-1951.
  2. Review of The Jewish Exodus from Iraq, 1948-1951, by Moshe Gat (reviewed by Daniel Pipes), Middle East Quarterly. Scholarship & press
    over 120,000 Jews fled Iraq and arrived in Israel
    there was no connection between the bomb-throwing incidents and the departure of the Jews
  3. The Farhud, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Scholarship & press
    erupted on June 1, 1941
  4. Why Jews Fled the Arab Countries, by Ya'akov Meron, Middle East Quarterly, 1995. Scholarship & press
    COORDINATING A PROGRAM OF EXPULSION
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