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<\/a>Jewish Refugees from Yemin<\/p><\/div>\n
The aliyah of Jews from the Arab countries since 1948, 850,000 and counting.<\/p>\n
Since the first Zionist pioneers came to what is today’s Israel in the early 1900’s Jews have sought to return to the land given to them in the Covenant with Abraham. And yet they still come. When the State of Israel was declared, actually restored, in 1947 the Jewish residents of most of the Arab nations of North Africa and the Near East suddenly found themselves as targets for persecution as Jews. Many also realized that moving to the newly declared Jewish homeland was something they had to do since they were heirs to the covenant.<\/p>\n
Up until the 1947 partition into the two states of Israel and Jordan most of the Jews in surrounding Arab countries lived relatively at peace within. But the declaration of the Jewish State brought about persecutions, expulsions, dispossession and danger. So much that many fled leaving behind property and businesses. Between 1948 and 1972 over 820,000 Jews were displaced or forced to flee for their lives. Approximately 200,000 went to Europe and the United States, 586,000 went to Israel. Israel was overburdened with the expenses and support of these refugees whose assets had been confiscated by their former homelands. Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Morocco, Syria and Yemen all eagerly added the lands, businesses and bank accounts of the expelled Jews to their treasuries.<\/p>\n