ABSTRACT
Once Iraq was pacified, in June the British moved into Syria. Although subject to Vichy French laws and discriminatory practices, Jews in Lebanon and Syria were fortunate that the edicts were barely implemented by the time the British invaded. Local Jews had been working for the Allies as intelligence operatives since the beginning of the war, and as agents for the illegal immigration of Jewish refugees along the “dry route,” shuttling those refugees who had reached Turkey to Palestine.
