The Islamic revolution in Iran 44 years ago in February 1979 had major impacts both globally and domestically - including on Iran's Jews. Most of the community, tens of thousands of people, fled for their lives, after a history of 27 centuries in Persia. | World Jewish Congress

Via @holylandspeaks ———————————- Jewish history in Greater Iran goes back 2,700 years. Jewish communities in Iran lived through periods of tolerance and integration, and periods of oppression and antiJewish persecution, but the 1950s-1970s was truly a golden era for Iran’s Jewish community. On the eve of the “Islamic” Revolution, there were between 80k - 100K Jews living in Iran. Today, 250,000 Israeli Jews are of Iranian Jewish descent. They’re waiting not only for peace between their nomelands

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