8JS Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries: Home

JIMENA is committed to achieving universal recognition to the heritage and history of the 850,000 indigenous Jewish refugees Arab from countries

MUCH as Palestinian refugees and their offspring remember the orange groves and cinemas they lost in Jaffa when Israel was born in 1948, Jews who once lived in Iraq recite the qasidas—lyrical Arabic poetry—and recall the time when most of Iraq’s banks and transport companies were run by Jews.

(JTA) — The United Nations must act to right the "historic wrong" done to Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries, said Israel’s U.N. ambassador to the world body, Ron Prosor.