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The '''Jewish exodus from Arab lands''' refers to the 20th century expulsion or [[emigration]] of Jews, primarily of [[Sephardi Jews|Sephardi]] and [[Mizrahi Jews|Mizrahi]] background, from majority [[Arab]] lands. This emigration increased in the aftermath of the [[1948 Arab-Israeli War]] and was caused by two converging processes. Firstly, in Arab countries discrimination against their Jewish citizens, sometimes state sanction(contracted; show full)
{{main|History of the Jews in Egypt}}

Egypt was once home of one of the most dynamic Jewish communities in their diaspora.  Caliphs in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries CE exercised various repressive policies, culminating in the destruction and mass murder of the Jewish quarter in Cairo in 1012. Conditions varied between then and the advent of the [[Ottoman Empire]] in 1517, when they deteriorated again. There were at least six blood libel persecutions in cities between 1870 and 1892.

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In 1948, approximately 75,000 Jews lived in [[Egypt]].  About 100 remain today, mostly in [[Cairo]].  In 1948, Jewish neighborhoods in Cairo suffered bomb attacks that killed at least 70 Jews.  Hundreds of Jews were arrested and had their property confiscated.  The 1954 [[Lavon Affair]], in which Israelis and Egyptian Jews were arrested for bombing Egyptian and American targets served as a pretext for further persecution of the remaining Jewish community in Egypt.  After the 1956 [[Suez Crisis]], Egypt exp(contracted; show full)[[Category:Ethnic riots]]
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