Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
Riots after the Six-Day War
Juin 1967·Aden
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synagogues set on fire, the community leaves the country
Aden, a British port at the entrance to the Red Sea, had been home to an ancient Jewish community, further augmented by Jews from the interior of Yemen who had passed through on their way to Israel. It had already suffered severe riots in the late 1940s.
When news of the Six-Day War broke, riots erupted once more. Synagogues were set ablaze, homes looted, residents killed. The British colony, on the verge of evacuation, was no longer protecting anything.
The last Jews of Aden left the country in the weeks that followed, bound for Israel and the United Kingdom. It was the end of a Jewish presence in the south of the Arabian Peninsula, traces of which reach back to the Himyarite kingdoms.
- Period :
- Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
- Type :
- Pogrom
- Region :
- Near and Middle East
- Country :
- Yémen
Tudor Parfitt, *The Road to Redemption* ; Encyclopaedia Judaica.