The Jewish Exodus from Arab Lands:
Toward Redressing Injustices on All Sides
Aharon Mor and Orly R. Rahimiyan
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
- For over 2,500 years, Jewish communities have existed in the lands now known as the Middle East and North Africa, as well as in Iran. Around one million Jews lived there at the start of the twentieth century; today less than 3 percent of that one million still remain (including Iran).