Judaism The Jewish communites in Arab Middle East are dying

[randy]

Wow.  Didnt know that.

[Alan_Boskov]

...Im not a Jew...

There are others here who also aren't. I'm only 1/16th Jew, paternally linked. Maybe more, through my adopted maternal grandmother of which there was a geneological documentation break. Despite this, I've never gotten into trouble here, because of my origin. In any event, this is only a discussion forum. Nobody's marrying someone's sister interreligiously here that I know of 

[COmentator]

2916 jewish graves vandalized in Eriteria 2016
https://www.timesofisrael.com/gravestone...n-eritrea/

In Syria 2022 the Jewish population was four |date=2022-09-22 |title=President of Syria’s Jewish community passed away; Damascus has 4 Jews |url=https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-717885 |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

In Syria 2024 according to the population chart the number of jews in Syria today is three
https://www.jewishrefugees.org.uk/

In Syria As of 2025 the Jewish population is 7  {The Times of Israel 22 February 2025)

By the way after 700 years Muslins are back in Europe
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/381990

By the way Hamas war was planned in advance for years
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/384607

jihad  first against the people of the Book {jews} then People of the Cross {Christians} then the whole world
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/compa...t-targets/

in 2024 6 jews still alive in yemen then 1 died and only 5 are left
https://www.thehebrewcafe.com/forum/show...p?tid=1393
https://www.jewishrefugees.org.uk/2024/0...yemen.html

In 2020 an estimated 5 Jews lived in Algeria [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jews-of-algeria

Algeria has no Jewish Population left according to Jewish World Congress: "Jews lived in Algeria from the pre-roman period to the early 1960's. There is no Jewish community left in Algeria Today"
As of 2022 "Jews 
A
Asmara, Eritrea had 1 jewish person Sami Cohen;  however he was murdered...amd no Jews left there.

Soon Syria; Lebanon; Yeman; Egypt will Be Judenfrei...the population will rejoyce at this fact....and scheme to destroy the Jews in Israel....

[COmentator]

The European Jewish Communites were shattered by the Shoah
The Middle East/African/ASian Jewish communites are dying
Latest Stastics:
* turkey 14,500 in 2022 {in 2009 it was 17,000) rate 192.30 per year-7.23 years judenfrei
*Iran       8,000
*Morocco  1,000 (in2023 it was 2,100 (Jewish Virtual Library-loss of 50.25 % in 1 years)
*Tunisa     1,000 [in 2019}
*Lebanon    20   [in 2020 total was 29 in 4 years community has decreased by 1/3]
*egypt        6 [?]  3 still alive trustworthy reports in 2022; in 2024 the youngest is 72
*Iraq        3
*Syria        3
*Yemen        1  (if he is still alive}
*Algeria      0
*Lybia        0
*Sudan        0
https://www.jewishrefugees.org.uk/2009/1...urkey.html

Jewish population a few years ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comment...e_and_now/

Jewish Population today
https://www.jewishrefugees.org.uk/2021/0...ve-no.html

[Robert]

Hello COmentator,

Without meaning any disrespect to those who have already answered, I would like to reply to the first post by COmentator. 
Also, I would prefer to reply to the discussion title, not the comment about the Holocaust. 

[Heading:] "Population in Israel"
'[...] Some 607,900 Israeli Jews are immigrants and first-generation descendants by paternal lineage of Moroccan, Tunisian, Libyan, Algerian, Yemenite, Iranian, Egyptian, Kurdish, Afghan, Pakistani, Indian and Turkish Jewish communities.[8] Many more Israeli Jews are second and third generation Mizrahi descendants or have a partial Mizrahi origin. [...]'

Citation 8.
Statistical Abstract of Israel, 2009, CBS [[Israel] Central Bureau of Statistics]. "Table 2.24 – Jews, by country of origin and age" (PDF). Retrieved 22 March 2010 [Although the link is currently unavailable, the PDF webpage can be viewed here}:
https://web.archive.org/web/202307090033...02_24x.pdf

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizrahi_Jews_in_Israel

As long as the reason for the reduction of Jewish populations outside of Israel in the wider middle east, is that they have been moving to Israel, then I do not see any issue. 

It is right and proper that these Jewish people in Arab countries make a return to their ancestral homeland of Israel. Israel is the place for which they have been yearning in their hearts, and so it is where they will be happiest.


The Wikipedia quote is worded, reflecting the typical manner in which the world unfortunately sees the Jewish people - Incorrectly only as immigrants to Israel from other countries. That is misleading because in ancestry the Jews came from the land of Israel having been substantially though not fully, exiled by Roman persecution. 
Judaism is both an ethnicity as well as a religion. 
The name "Jew" (Yehudi) originates from Judah son of Israel (Jacob), 
thus later the tribe of Judah, 
then the portion of the land of Israel allotted to that tribe, 
and later to the Kingdom of Judah. 
"Jew" thus also refers in ancestry to a citizen of the Kingdom of Judah. 
Therefore the Jewish people including the Mizrahi Jews to which reference is made in the above quote from Wikipedia, have Judah heritage ! 

The Jewish people's previous sovereign states in the land of Israel, from which we see that modern Israel is Re-established within the Jewish ancestral homeland:

The last indigenous sovereign state in the land of Israel prior to modern Israel:
Post-Biblical history records the Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom, including what is now wrongly referred to as the "West Bank" (proper name Judah and Samaria), Gaza, and Golan Heights, with its capital of (what is now EAST) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 110 BCE / 754 BH and 63 BCE / 706 BH - Map: 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c...ingdom.jpg

Map of the Jewish Kingdom of Israel aka Samaria, including part of the "West Bank", and Golan Heights, last capital Samaria; between 930 BCE / 1599 BH and 720 BCE / 1383 BH: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kingd...ap_830.svg

Map of the Jewish Kingdom of Judah, including the rest of the "West Bank", capital of (what is now EAST) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 930 BCE / 1599 BH and 586 BCE / 1244 BH: 
(See the latter-linked map.)

Map of the Jewish Kingdom of Israel - United, including the "West Bank", Gaza, and Golan Heights, capital of (what is now EAST) Jerusalem / “Old City”; between 1050 BCE / 1723 BH and 930 BCE / 1599 BH: 
https://www.quora.com/Were-the-Golan-Hei...a religion

Map of the Tribes of Israel Confederation - Apportionment of Canaan; about 1200 BCE / 1877 BH to 1050 BCE / 1723 BH: 
https://en-academic.com/pictures/enwiki/...el_Map.svg
[Note: The map shows a separate area for the tribe of Simeon, but this is not correct for Simeon were not allowed their own portion, but were instead incorporated within Judah.]