Departments

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  Personal Stories: Ambassador Yossi Avni-Levy

   
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  Integration into Israel

  On May 14, 1948 the State of Israel was proclaimed. Despite attack from six Arab armies dedicated to its extermination, waves of mass immigration brought hundreds of thousands of Jews to Is ...

   
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  Expulsion from the Arab world

  Prior to the UN Partition Plan, state-sanctioned acts of repression and violence, precipitated a mass departure of the ancient Jewish communities, often in desperate economic circumstances.

   
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  Discrimination & Pogroms

  Numerous incidents of massacres and other false accusations led to massive rioting and massacres.

   
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  Economic Life

  Many Jews in Egypt, Iraq and Aden achieved success in business and commerce, and their contributions to the Arab economies were highly disproportionate to their numbers.