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Today, the descendants of Jews who immigrated to Israel from other Middle Eastern lands (known as Mizrahi Jews and Sephardic Jews) constitute more than half of the total Israeli population. [11] In 2009, only 26 000 Jews remained in Arab countries and Iran, [12] as well as another 26 000 in Turkey. [13]
In 1948, following the 1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine, the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel sparked the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which resulted in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight from the land that the State of Israel came to control and subsequently led to waves of Jewish immigration from other parts of the Middle East.
The Fascist regime at the time showed racialist attitudes towards the Beta Israel Jews of Ethiopia since they are racially black and the Fascist regime deemed whites to be superior to blacks; and racial laws enacted in Italy also applied to the Beta Israel Jews in Italian East Africa that forbade intimate relationships between blacks and whites.
Historians and archaeologists agree that the northern Kingdom of Israel existed by ca. 900 BCE [49] [50] and the Kingdom of Judah existed by ca. 850 BCE. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] The Kingdom of Israel was the more prosperous of the two kingdoms and soon developed into a regional power; [ 53 ] during the days of the Omride dynasty , it controlled Samaria ...
Jewish communities have existed across the Middle East and North Africa since classical antiquity.By the time of the early Muslim conquests in the seventh century, these ancient communities had been ruled by various empires and included the Babylonian, Persian, Carthaginian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and Yemenite Jews.
According to the Hebrew Bible, a "United Monarchy" consisting of Israel and Judah existed as early as the 11th century BCE, under the reigns of Saul, David, and Solomon; the great kingdom later was separated into two smaller kingdoms: Israel, containing the cities of Shechem and Samaria, in the north, and Judah, containing Jerusalem and Solomon ...
During the Middle Ages, due to increasing migration and resettlement, Jews divided into distinct regional groups that today are generally addressed according to two primary geographical groupings: the Ashkenazi of Northern and Eastern Europe, and the Sephardic Jews of Iberia (Spain and Portugal), North Africa and the Middle East.
According to the 2009 Statistical Abstract of Israel by Israel Central Bureau of Statistics; 2,043.8k israeli jews were Israel born (father born in Israel), 681.4k were from other asian countries (including 45.6k from Indian and Pakistani), 859.1k from African countries (including 106.9k from ethiopia), and 1,939.4k were from Europe, America ...