I am wondering how many Jews are still live today in those Arab countries: 1) Yemen 2) Libya 3) Tunisia 4) Algeria 5) Egypt 6) Syria 7) Lebanon 8) Iraq Just wondering.
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The information you need is at the CIAs World Factbook website
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Jewish people and Christians live everywhere. It should be a simple matter to Goggle that information.
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well, do u mean practicing jews, or jews that take arabic names and assimilate and deny their jewishness? the latter makes it quite difficult for accurate numbers.
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There are quite a few, actually. It is good to pray the rosary often and carefully for their safety. http://www.medjugorje.org/rosary.htm
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i think you know already, trying to get the fish to bite?
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In Egypt it's less than 1%
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Yemen: Jews are the oldest non-Muslim religious minority. Nearly all of the country's once-sizable Jewish population has emigrated. Fewer than 400 Jews remain in the northern part of the country, primarily in Amran Governorate. Since January 2007, the historic Saada governorate community of 45 Jews have lived in Sana'a, under the protection and care of the Government, after abandoning their homes in the face of threats from al-Houthi rebels. The community has abandoned its synagogues in Saada. There is at least one functioning synagogue in Amran Governorate. * Libya: After the war, anti-Jewish violence caused many Jews to leave the country usually for Israel. Under Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, who has ruled the country since 1969, the situation became a lot worse, which led almost all Jews to emigrate; now, only one Jewish woman still lives in the country. * Tunisia: Judaism is the country's third largest religion with 1,500 members. One-third of the Jewish population lives in and around the capital, and is descended predominantly from Italian and Spanish immigrants. The remainder lives on the island of Djerba, where the Jewish community dates back 2,500 years. * Algeria: The Jewish community of Algeria is of considerable antiquity, with some members claiming descent from immigrants from Palestine at the time of the Romans. The majority are descendants of refugees from Spanish persecution early in the fifteenth century. They numbered about 140,000 before the Algerian War, but at independence in 1962 nearly all of them left the country. Because the 1870 Crémieux Decrees, which aimed at assimilating the colonists of Algeria to France, gave Jews full French citizenship, most members of the Jewish community emigrated to France. The small remaining Jewish population appeared to have stabilized at roughly 1,000. It was thought to be close to this number in the early 1990s. Although no untoward incidents occurred during the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973, a group of youths sacked the only remaining synagogue in Algiers in early 1977. * Egypt: After the 1956 Suez Crisis, a great number of Jews were expelled by Gamal Abdel Nasser. Their Egyptian citizenship was revoked and their properties were confiscated. A steady stream of emigration of Egyptian Jews followed, reaching a peak after the Six-Day War with Israel in 1967. Today, Jews in Egypt number fewer than 200. * Syria: After a mass-emigration in 1992, today fewer than 200 Jews live in Syria, mostly in the capital. A Syrian Jew is Arabic-speaking and is barely distinguishable from the Arabs around him. In Syria, as elsewhere, the degree to which Jews submit to the disciplines of their religion varies. * Lebanon: There are only between 20 and 40 Jews now living in the country. Emigration was not great even after Lebanon's first civil war in 1958, as Lebanese Jews were tightly integrated into society and felt no need to abandon their homeland. But emigration increased after Lebanon's 1975 civil war, and increased further after Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982. * Iraq: The once thriving Jewish community has survived, despite local 20th Century persecution on the background of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The majority have fled, largely to Israel. Fewer than 100 Jews remain in Iraq.
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