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In the 1950s, the Israeli treatment of Iranian Jews was similar to the Israeli treatment of other Jews from the Middle Eastern and North African region. [5] Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, over 200,000 Iranians have settled in Israel. [6] Many Iranian Jews immigrated to Israel after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. [7]
There are conflicting estimates on the number of Jews who chose to leave Iran during those years. According to Trita Parsi, by 1951 only 8,000 of 100,000 Iranian Jews had emigrated to Israel. [9] However, according to Eliz Sanasarian, during 1948–1953, about one-third of Iranian Jews, most of them poor, emigrated to Israel. [8]
In addition, Iranian Jews in Israel generally speak Hebrew, and Iranian Jews elsewhere will tend to speak the local language (e.g. English in the United States) with sprinkles of Persian and Hebrew. Many Jews from the Northwest area of Iran speak Lishán Didán or other various dialects of Jewish Neo-Aramaic. [144]
Because the old way of life was quashed by the regime, many Iranian Jews say they relate more to Israel and support its fight against Hamas and, by extension, Iran, the militant group’s key ...
The exodus of Iran's Jews [232] refers to the emigration of Persian Jews from Pahlavi Iran in the 1950s and a later migration wave from Iran during and after the Iranian Revolution of 1979. At the time of Israeli independence in 1948, there were an estimated 140,000 to 150,000 Jews in Iran.
Jewish Departure and Expulsion Memorial from Arab Lands and Iran on the Sherover Promenade, Jerusalem. May 9, 2021, the first physical memorialization in Israel of the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from Arab land and Iran was placed on the Sherover Promenade in Jerusalem.
Israel's arrest of almost 30 mostly Jewish citizens who allegedly spied for Iran in nine covert cells has caused alarm in the country and points to Tehran's biggest effort in decades to infiltrate ...
Despite their Pro-Iranian stance and their refusal to travel to Israel, [132] the Jews of Iran are denounced for betraying Iran by showing loyalty to Israel. [133] However, Iranian Jews are allowed to visit Israel, even though Iranian passport holders are legally barred from doing so, often through Turkey, and return.