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In 2019 three Jews in Egypt applied for Spanish citizenship [88] In April 2021, one of the last members of the community, Albert Arie, died aged 90; he had converted to Islam, married an Egyptian Muslim woman, and was buried as a Muslim. [89] One of the four remaining Jews in Egypt, Reb Yosef Ben-Gaon of Alexandria, died in November 2021. [90]
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.
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.
In 1948, approximately 75,000 Jews lived in Egypt. Around 20,000 Jews left Egypt during 1948–49 following the events of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War (including the 1948 Cairo bombings). [131] A further 5000 left between 1952 and 1956, in the wake of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 and later the false flag Lavon Affair. [131]
Less than 1,000 Jews still lived in Egypt in 1970. They were given permission to leave but without their possessions. As of 1971, only 400 Jews remained in Egypt. As of 2013, only a few dozen Jews remain in Egypt. As of 2019, there were five in Cairo. [73] As of 2022 the total number of known Egyptian Jews permanently residing in Egypt is three.
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 ...
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]
It was not until the third century that Jews re-established communities in Egypt, but they never regained their former influence. [81] In Cyrenaica, a gap in the evidence following the revolt suggests that the region was virtually depopulated of Jews due to their migration to Egypt and subsequent massacres by non-Jews. [58]