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During the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel took 4,338 Egyptian soldiers and 899 civilians, 553 Jordanian soldiers and 366 civilians, and 367 Syrian soldiers and 205 civilians captive, while 15 Israeli soldiers and the bodies of two more fell into Arab captivity. All of them were released following the war.
The Book of Genesis and the Book of Exodus from the Hebrew Bible depict the Israelites, ancestors of Jews, as having resided in ancient Egypt for a lengthy period of time. The narrative describes the patriarch Jacob and his twelve sons (progenitors of the Twelve Tribes of Israel) settling in Egypt, with their descendants later forced into slavery.
The Lavon affair was a failed Israeli covert operation, codenamed Operation Susannah, conducted in Egypt in the summer of 1954. As part of a false flag operation, [1] a group of Egyptian Jews were recruited by Israeli military intelligence to plant bombs inside Egyptian-, American-, and British-owned civilian targets: cinemas, libraries, and American educational centers.
The rest, although in many cases born in Egypt and living there for generations, did not hold Egyptian citizenship. 1948 State of Israel established. Antisemitism in Egypt strongly intensified. On May 15, 1948, emergency law was declared, and a royal decree forbade Egyptian citizens to leave the country without a special permit. This was ...
Photos were also found of Israeli prisoners who were photographed alive in Egyptian captivity, but were returned to Israel dead. [15] [17] The order to kill Israeli prisoners came from General Shazly, who, in a pamphlet distributed to Egyptian soldiers immediately before the war, advised his troops to kill Israeli soldiers even if they surrendered.
Cohen was born in Alexandria, Egypt, to a family of Mizrahi Jews.His father had immigrated from Aleppo in the Ottoman Empire in 1914. Deeply committed to Judaism, Cohen had planned in his youth to become a rabbi with guidance from Moise Ventura [] (1893–1978), Alexandria's Chief Rabbi, [4] but the city's yeshiva soon closed down, [5] prompting him to pursue higher education at Cairo University.
Senior U.S. and Israeli officials held a virtual meeting on Thursday expected to include a discussion of both Israel's plans for the southern Gaza city of Rafah and its consideration of a ...
Israeli authorities evacuating Yamit by force, April 1982. Israeli settlements in the Sinai Peninsula were split into two regions: one along the Mediterranean coast, and another along the Gulf of Aqaba. [5] Israel had plans to expand the settlement of Yamit into a city of up to 200,000 residents. [6] The actual population of Yamit never ...