Since 2014, in Israel, November 30 has been the annual Day of Commemoration of the Exile of Jewish Refugees from the Arab World.
While we speak regularly, in the United Nations and elsewhere, of the fate of the Arabs who left Palestine when the State of Israel was created, we speak less of the Jews who once lived in Mediterranean and Eastern countries, particularly in Algeria, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen.
In the few years following the establishment of the State of Israel and decolonization, approximately 900,000 Jews had to leave those countries where they had lived for centuries, if not millennia, long before the Muslim conquest.
Many have been deprived of their property and victims of violence and persecution.
Two thirds of them took refuge in Israel, which absorbed them quickly, after a brief stint in reception camps.
The others have spread across the world, especially in France, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Argentina
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