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The emigrations from the other North African Arab countries peaked in the 1960s. The peak of the exodus from Egypt occurred in 1956 following the Suez Crisis. Later waves peaked at different times in different regions over the subsequent decades. The Israeli government's policy to accommodate 600,000 immigrants over four years, doubling the existing Jewish population, encountered mixed reactions in the Knesset there were those within the Jewish Agency and government who opposed promoting a large-scale emigration movement among Jews whose lives were not in danger. Between 19, 260,000 Jews immigrated to Israel from Arab countries. In these cases over 90% of the Jewish population left, despite the necessity of leaving their property behind. The first large-scale exoduses took place in the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from Iraq, Yemen and Libya. A further 200,000 lived in Pahlavi Iran and the Republic of Turkey. Of these, just under two-thirds lived in French- and Italian-controlled North Africa, 15–20% in the Kingdom of Iraq, approximately 10% in the Kingdom of Egypt and approximately 7% in the Kingdom of Yemen. Prior to the creation of Israel in 1948, approximately 800,000 Jews were living in lands that now make up the Arab world. Few Jews from Muslim countries immigrated during the period of Mandatory Palestine. Ī number of small-scale Jewish migrations began in many Middle Eastern countries early in the 20th century with the only substantial aliyah (immigration to the area today known as Israel) coming from Yemen and Syria. An estimated 650,000 of the departees settled in Israel.

The Jewish exodus from the Muslim world was the migration, departure, flight and expulsion of around 900,000 Jews from Arab countries and Iran, mainly from 1948 to the early 1970s, though with one final exodus from Iran in 1979–80 following the Iranian Revolution. Historical Jewish population comparisons.Demographic history of Palestine (region).History of the Jews in the Land of Israel.Jews who remained in the Land of Israel.