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Jewish Aliya after 1948


Question:
About how many Jewish refugees fled Arab countries for Israel after the War of Independence?


AskTheRabbi.org answered:
600,000. They were absorbed by the State of Israel, whose own population only numbered about 600,000 at the time.

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