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Additionally, some Sephardic Jews "were...prominent merchants with European markets" who were even regarded as "potential allies, diplomats, and spies" during times of war against Christians. [24] Throughout the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire saw an increased Jewish influence on the economy and commerce.
A Byzantine mosaic presenting King David as Orpheus in the ancient Gaza synagogue. The history of the Jews in Gaza City was intermittent, spanning from the second century BCE until the 1929 Palestine riots and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The Jewish community in the city produced rabbis and notable figures throughout its history.
In 1492 and again in 1498, when the Sephardic Jews were expelled from Spain and Portugal respectively, refugees migrated to the Land of Israel, which changed hands from Mamluks to Ottomans after the second Ottoman–Mamluk war, and Ottoman tolerance was seen as an alternative to Christian persecution.
The Ottoman Empire began to become skeptical of the residents in the region, mostly Jews, as the Ottomans disdained them for alleged collaboration with the British following the discovery of the Nili spy ring. At the start of March, all the inhabitants of Gaza were expelled, a town of 35,000–40,000 people, mostly Arabs.
Gaspar Jorge de Leão Pereira, the first archbishop of Goa, wanted to suppress or expel that community, calling for the initiation of the Goa Inquisition against the Sephardic Jews in India. In recent times, principally after 1948, most Eastern Sephardim have since relocated to Israel, and others to the US and Latin America.
This year, the painful turmoil in Israel and the Gaza Strip, and the divisions it has created, darken our Passover reflection. These are difficult times for local Jews, Muslims, Israelis and ...
This is a list of conflicts in the southern Levant arranged chronologically from ancient to modern times. This region has also been referred to historically as the Land of Canaan , the Land of Israel , the Holy Land , the Promised Land , and Palestine .
13 October: Israel tells over 1m people to evacuate Gaza City. After Israel’s war cabinet ordered a complete siege of Gaza in the wake of the Hamas attack and launched air strikes on northern ...