List of Jews from the Arab world

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Template:Sidebar with collapsible lists Until the 20th century, Jews accounted for a significant minority among the populations of West Asia and North Africa, which has mostly consisted of the Arab world since the early Muslim conquests. Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the majority of the Arab world's Jews—numbering around 900,000 people—left or were expelled in waves of mass movement that continued until the 1970s. Roughly 72% of these refugees were absorbed by Israel and the remainder largely by the Western world. This article provides a list of prominent Jews with either full or partial origins in the territory of the Arab world from as far back as the early medieval era.

Al-Andalus (Arab Spain)

Algeria

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Bahrain

  • Menasheh Idafar, of Iraqi descent, former Bahraini/British racing driver with dual citizenship<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Egypt

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Iraq

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Ovadia Yosef

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Kuwait

Libya

  • George Borba, footballer
  • Hila Klein, member of American-Israeli husband and wife duo h3h3Productions, best known for their YouTube channel of the same name. Family is of mixed Libyan and Iraqi Jewish heritage<ref>[1], video discussing ancestry</ref>
  • Moses Hacmon, Israeli artist and architect. Family is of mixed Libyan Jewish, Turkish Jewish and Iraqi Jewish heritage
  • Yitzhak Tshuva, Libyan-born Israeli billionaire businessman
  • Moshe Kahlon, a retired Israeli politician, born to Libyan parents who immigrated from Tripoli
  • Yossef Romano (1940 – 1972) was a Libyan-born Israeli weightlifter
  • Amos Lavi (1953 - 2010) was a Libyan-born Israeli actor

Lebanon

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  • Edmond Safra, billionaire banker<ref>Edmond Safra (1954) and Edmond Safra (1954) information from the National Archives, Rio de Janeiro. Scan of Edmond Safra's Brazilian entry visa on 1954 on familysearch.org</ref>
  • Jacob Safra, founder of Jacob E. Safra Bank<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Joseph Safra, chairman of all Safra companies<ref>Joseph Safra (1956) and Joseph Safra (1956), information from the National Archives, Rio de Janeiro. Scan of Joseph Safra's Brazilian entry visa on 1954 on familysearch.org</ref>
  • Heiny Srour, film director
  • Esther Moyal. Lebanese Jewish journalist, writer and women's rights activist.

Morocco

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Rabbi Shlomo Amar

Saudi Arabia

Sudan

Syria

Tunisia

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Yemen

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See also

Footnotes

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