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WHY ISRAEL 35
Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children. ISAIAH 66:8
MIZRAHI COMMUNITY
When the modern State of Israel was formed, the Mizrahi Jewish communities of the Middle East and North Africa were evicted from their homes.
For nearly 70 years, the stories of 850,000 Jewish refugees have not been told. Evicted from their homes in communities across the Middle East and North Africa where Jews had lived for over 2,000 years, these families lost everything. Their homes, their possessions, their ancestral heritage, and their religious artifacts – everything had to be left behind.
Yemenite Jews en route from Aden to Israel.
Beginning in 1948, hundreds of thousands of these refugees fled to the newly formed State of Israel.
(Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
