ABSTRACT
The situation was similar in Syria for its 30,000 Jews. The 1947 pogrom in Aleppo caused 7,000 of the town’s 10,000 Jews to flee. In 1949, banks were instructed to freeze the accounts of Jews, and all their assets were expropriated. Nearly all Jewish civil servants were dismissed from their jobs, freedom of movement within Syria for Jews was severely curtailed, and frontier posts were established to control the movement of Jews out of the country. In all, approximately 800,000 Jews from Arab lands were displaced and dispossessed after the establishment of the State of Israel.
