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Amongst the issues discussed were territorial questions and the establishment of recognized borders, the question of Jerusalem, the repatriation of refugees (and whether the issue could be discussed separately from the overall Arab–Israeli conflict), Israeli counter-claims for war damages, the fate of orange groves belonging to Arab refugees and of their bank accounts blocked in Israel.
Unlike in other Arab countries, the Lebanese Jewish community did not face grave peril during the 1948 Arab–Israel War and was reasonably protected by governmental authorities. Lebanon was also the only Arab country that saw a post-1948 increase in its Jewish population, principally due to the influx of Jews coming from Syria and Iraq. [202]
The Jewish diaspora in the second Temple period (516 BCE – 70 CE) was created from various factors, including through the creation of political and war refugees, enslavement, deportation, overpopulation, indebtedness, military employment, and opportunities in business, commerce, and agriculture. [7]
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Israeli–Lebanese conflict Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict and the Iran–Israel proxy conflict Israel and Lebanon (regional map) Date 15 May 1948 – present (76 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 5 days) Main phase: 1978–2000, 2006, 2023–present Location Israel and Lebanon Result General cease ...
The diaspora population consists of Christians, Muslims, Druze, and Jews. The Christians trace their origin to several waves of emigration, starting with the exodus that followed the 1860 Lebanon conflict in Ottoman Empire. Under the current Lebanese nationality law, the Lebanese diaspora do not have an automatic right to return to Lebanon.
The small Christian village of about 1,500 is only a few miles from Lebanon’s border with Israel — an island in an ocean of mostly ... by the country’s 15-year communal civil war that ended ...
The 60-day cessation of hostilities aims to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which was adopted to end a 34-day war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006, and had kept relative calm in ...
Jewish leaders were arrested and executed, and Yiddish schools were shut down. Shortly after this, World War II brought to an abrupt end concerted efforts to bring Jews east. [citation needed] There was a slight revival in the Birobidzhan idea after the war as a potential home for Jewish refugees. During that time, the Jewish population of the ...