Iraqi jews

Thousands of Middle East Jewish refugees lost est. $263 billion in assets, researchers show UNHRC

The report details how systematic state oppression, pogroms, and expulsions depopulated the nearly one million Jews of the Middle East.

Overview of the Human Rights Council one day after the U.S. announced their withdraw at the United Nations in Geneva,
IRAQI JEWS in Israel protest their counterparts’ persecution under the Ba’ath regime. (Fritz Cohen)

Grandson of expelled Iraqi Jews sues French gov't for millions unpaid rent on house used as embassy

 Alan Yentob, from London, Broadcaster and Television Executive poses after being made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire at an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London. Picture date: Wednesday December 18, 2024.

Alan Yentob, British Jewish broadcaster and former BBC controller, dies at 78

IRAQI JEWS in Israel protest their counterparts’ persecution under the Ba’ath regime. (Fritz Cohen)

'Ensuring their story is remembered': Report highlights forgotten exodus of Iraqi Jews


How an Iraqi Jew blazed the trail to freedom

The Jerusalem Post

Saving the Jews of Iraq

Just 26 years old, Shlomo Hillel played a major role in bringing 125,000 Iraqi immigrants to Israel.

Police minister Hillel inspects his troops in the 1970s ; (right) Let my people go: Aliya agent Hillel in Baghdad

The Jewish master of Arabic

Most revered for his Arabic to English translation of the Koran, Nessim Joseph Dawood was a revolutionary in introducing the West to Arab literature and culture – but his life story is so much more.

Nessim Dawood

Bridging civilizations

Normally the elites of Iraqi Jewry in London are associated with the great merchant families, but Nessim Dawood represented an aristocracy of knowledge instead.

Aladdin is trapped by the sorcerer in the magic cave.

The Yehuda family Torah scroll

The Torah scroll was written on the finest deerskin available in Bahdad and completed in 1912; It now resides at the Ohel Ari Synagogue in Ra'anana.

The Yehuda family Torah scroll.

The Jewish master of Arabic

Most revered for his Arabic to English translation of the Koran, Nessim Joseph Dawood was a revolutionary in introducing the West to Arab literature and culture – but his life story is so much more.

Nessim Dawood

Sunni Islamist rebels surge towards Baghdad as Iraqi army loses control of north

Kurds seize Kirkuk, a city with huge oil reserves just outside their autonomous region, which they regard as their historical capital.

Civilian children stand next to a burnt vehicle during clashes between Iraqi security forces and al Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the northern Iraq city of Mosul, June 10, 2014.

A black day in January for Iraq's Jews

The Jerusalem Post