1945 Cairo pogrom

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In 1945, with the rise of Egyptian nationalism and the cultivation of anti-Western and anti-Jewish sentiment, riots erupted. In the violence, 10 Jews were killed, 350 injured, and a synagogue, a Jewish hospital, and an old-age home were burned down.^[1][2] The same year the instability in Egypt prompted the Helwan riots by South African soldiers.

Numerous acts of violence against Egyptian Jews followed in the later years, including the 1948 bombings of Jewish areas which killed 70 Jews and wounded nearly 200, while riots claimed many more lives.^[3] In 1949, a bombing in the Cairo Jewish quarter killed 34 and wounded 80.^[2] During the 1950s, the Jews of Egypt were subjected to political instability due to ongoing Israeli-Egyptian conflict and suffered sporadic violence, which eventually led to expulsion and flight of the community from Egypt.

See also

• Farhud
• 1945 Tripoli pogrom
• Aleppo pogrom
• 1947 Aden pogrom

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