Mizrahi Jews in Israel
| Regions with significant populations | |
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| Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and many other places | |
| Languages | |
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Hebrew (Main language for all generations); Older generation: Arabic language (Judeo-Arabic languages) and other languages like Judeo-Persian, Kurdish, Georgian, Urdu, Pashto, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Bukhori, Juhuri |
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| Religion | |
| Sephardic Judaism, Yemenite Nusach |
Mizrahi Jews in Israel constitute one of the largest Jewish sub-groups among Israeli Jews numbering about half of Israeli Jews The other dominant sub-group are the Israeli Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardic Jews. Often Mizrahi and North African Sephardic Jews in Israel are grouped together due to the similarity of their history under Muslim rule and an overwhelming migration out of their countries of residence during the 20th century.
Israeli Mizrahim are descended from Jews in the Middle East and Central Asia, from Babylonian and Persian heritage who had lived for many generations under Muslim rule during the Middle Ages. The vast majority of them left the Muslim-majority countries during the Arab–Israeli conflict, in what is known as the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.
After the establishment of the State of Israel and subsequent 1948 Arab–Israeli War, most Mizrahi Jews were either expelled by their Arab rulers or chose to leave and emigrated to Israel. According to the 2009 Statistical Abstract of Israel, 50.2% of Israeli Jews are of Mizrahi or Sephardic origin.
Anti-Jewish actions by Arab governments in the 1950s and 1960s, in the context of the founding of the State of Israel, led to the departure of large numbers of Mizrahi Jews from the Middle East. 25,000 Mizrahi Jews from Egypt left after the 1956 Suez Crisis, led to the overwhelming majority of Mizrahim leaving Arab countries. They became refugees and most went to Israel.
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