1951 350, 000 Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands

After the establishment of the State of Israel conditions in more than one Arab country became utterly unbearable for them. In 1950/51, more than 120,000 Iraqi Jews were transferred by airlift to Israel. Most of them arrived almost penniless, their assets, movable and immovable, having been frozen by the Iraq Government under an arbitrary law enacted to facilitate this wholesale expropriation. Similarly 45,000 Jews from the Yemen, 55,000 from French North Africa and 32,000 from Lybia have come to Israel. Altogether 350,000 Jews from Arab and Moslem lands have settled in Israel since the establishment of the State.
Source: Arab Refugees. (p. 26)
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