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What Arab countries do Jews live in?
70 years ago, there would have been an answer to this question that would have been interesting (170,000 Iraqi Jews, 285,000 Moroccan Jews, 140,000 Algerian Jews, 100,000 Jews in Egypt, etc.). However, Jews were driven out of the Arab countries from 1948-1955. 850,000 Jews fled the Arab States. 500,000 settled in Israel and the remaining 350,000 have found asylum elsewhere. Currently, the only Arab country with greater than 1,000 Jews is Morocco with roughly 3,400-4,000 Jews. Most Arab countries currently have less than 100 Jews.
Why are Arab countries important to Israel?
They are its neighbors and frequently its adversaries.
What happened on the day the State of Israel became a nation?
After the Jews in Palestine declared independence as the State of Israel, war immediately broke out between the newborn state and its Arab neighbors, including Egypt and Jordan.
What are Arabs if they are not Muslim?
Although 90% of the Arab World is either Sunni or Shiite, there are other important groups. Christians: There are large Christian communities in Lebanon (Maronites) and Egypt (Copts). There are smaller communities stretched throughout Palestine, Syria, and Iraq of Syrian Orthodox, Syrian Catholics, Assyrians, and Chaldeans. Jews: The Jews who lived in the Arab World were never truly considered Arab both internally and by their Arab neighbors (even though they typically are by Europeans), but at the time of the declaration of the State of Israel there were over 800,000 Jews in the Arab World. Other: There are very small numbers of Bahai'i, Zoroastrians, Yazidi, and many other religions within the Arab World. The sum total of this population is probably less than 10,000.
Can Jews visit Arab countries?
No.
Who are some famous Arab Jews?
The most famous Jew to live in an Arab land was Maimonides.
What country was invaded by Arab neighbors the day after declaring independence in 1948?
Israel
Did the Arabs believe in the Judaism teaching?
Some did. The Jews were quite active in seeking converts. By the time of Muhammad, there were quite a few Jews and Christians among the Arabs. When Muhammad went to Medina, he met two Arab tribes that had adopted Judaism. Some of the Arab Jews subsequently became Muslims, while others retained their Jewish faith and were known as Arab Jews. Since the Israeli declaration of independence, they have been encouraged to forget their Arab associations and identify as Sephardic Jews.
How were Jews involved in the Arab-Israeli War?
Israel is the Jewish State and approximately 80% of its population is Jewish. This is the primary way that Jews are involved with the Arab-Israeli War. Additionally, Jews outside of Israel often finance or support Israel in its mission to be a place for Jews.
What did Israel's Arab neighbors invade in 1948?
An old agage says whereever the Jews wander trouble soon follows. Arabs are Moslem and Jews were displacing Palestianian Moslems. Jews were closely connected to the wealth and Power of the Western World. The UN was biased towards Jews, and the Arabs were unfairly treated by the League of Nations after WW1 and therefore didn`t trust the UN. Egypt was emerging with Nationalistic Leaders like Nassar and throwing off the influence of Britain as was other Arab Nations the influence of France and were all endowed with the new wealth and means of Oil.
How did the Southern colonies get along with their neighbors?
They got along badly
What were the roots of Arab Jews?
It depends on how the term "Arab Jew" is meant. If the term "Arab Jew" to refer to "Jews from the Arab World" it is worth noting that they identify themselves either as "Mizrahim" (Jews of the East) or "Jews from the Arab World". The term Arab Jew is seen by both Arabs and Jews to be quite problematic, but can be used as it makes "Arab" the physical descriptor of the type of Jew. The reverse (Jewish Arab) is not even historically acceptable for describing these types of people, whereas this type of identification is how Muslims and Christians identify (Muslim Arabs and Christian Arabs) because their religion describes what type of Arab they are. The Mizrahim trace their origins back to the countries that came under Arab Islamic control prior to the arrival of the Muslims. The communities in Northern Africa were populated by Jews during the Roman Diaspora period. The communities in Iraq were the remnants of those Jews deported by the Babylonians who never returned to the Land of Israel, and so on. If the question is referring to the Arab Tribes in the Pre-Islamic Period that embraced Judaism, it is unclear whether these were Arabs who converted to Judaism or they were Jews who migrated to Arabia and took on Arabic language and customs. Those Jewish Arab Tribes disappeared during the 600s CE because of the conflicts between them and nascent Islam and because of Caliph Omar's edict that all Jews had to leave Arabia or convert to Islam. As a result, none of these Jewish Arab Tribes have modern descendants who see themselves as Jews.
