Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
Arrests, dismissals, and prohibition on selling after the Six-Day War; prelude to the 1969 hangings
1967·Bagdad
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After the exodus of the early nineteen-fifties, only a few thousand Jews remained in Iraq, almost all of them in Baghdad. The Six-Day War brought them a new wave of measures.
Telephones were cut off, bank accounts frozen, trade licences revoked; the sale of property was forbidden, movement subjected to authorization, and public sector employment closed to them. Arrests took place, often without stated grounds.
These measures were a prelude to the wave of espionage trials in the years that followed, which would end with public hangings in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, before a crowd summoned for the occasion. The last Jews in the country would leave Iraq clandestinely in the decade that followed.
- Period :
- Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
- Type :
- Trials and executions
- Region :
- Near and Middle East
- Country :
- Irak
Nissim Rejwan, *The Jews of Iraq* ; Norman A. Stillman, *The Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times*.