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The eventual result was the almost-complete disappearance of the 3,000-year-old Jewish community in Egypt; the vast majority of Jews left the country. Most Egyptian Jews fled to Israel (35,000), Brazil (15,000), France (10,000), the US (9,000) and Argentina (9,000).
Israel in Egypt (Edward Poynter, 1867). The story of the Exodus is told in the first half of Exodus, with the remainder recounting the 1st year in the wilderness, and followed by a narrative of 39 more years in the books of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, the last four of the first five books of the Bible (also called the Torah or Pentateuch). [10]
This was applied to Jews. Hundreds of Jews were arrested and many had their property confiscated. In June through August 1948, bombs were planted in Jewish neighborhoods and Jewish businesses looted. About 250 Jews were killed or wounded by the bombs. Roughly 14,000 Jews left Egypt between 1948 and 1950. 1949
Jews were expelled or left, forced out by the anti-Jewish feeling in Egypt. [188] Some 25,000 Jews, almost half of the Jewish community left, mainly for Europe, the United States, South America and Israel, after being forced to sign declarations that they were leaving voluntarily, and agreed with the confiscation of their assets.
Some 23,000—25,000 Jews out of 42,500 in Egypt left, [18] mainly for Israel, Western Europe, the United States, South America, and Australia. [19] Many were forced to sign declarations that they were voluntarily emigrating and agreed to the confiscation of their assets.
The reason is to recall the haste with which the Jews left Egypt, not even allowing time for their bread to rise. In the place of leavened bread, Jews eat matzah, or "bread of affliction," which ...
According to Josephus, when Ptolemy I took Judea, he led 120,000 Jewish captives to Egypt, and many other Jews, attracted by Ptolemy's liberal and tolerant policies and Egypt's fertile soil, emigrated from Judea to Egypt of their own free will. [34] Ptolemy settled the Jews in Egypt to employ them as mercenaries.
Alexandria (Egypt) France. England. Spain. Switzerland. Portugal. The Middle East (in 1948) He then added the genocide of Jews throughout Europe by the Nazis, and the latest terrorist attack by ...