Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
After the pogrom, the State organizes the evacuation of the community and confiscates the property left behind
Juin 1967·Tripoli (suites)
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After the violence following the announcement of the Six-Day War, the Libyan government decided to evacuate what remained of the community. The families of Tripoli were gathered in camps under military guard, then transported by plane and by boat to Italy.
Each person was allowed only one suitcase and a strictly capped sum of money; houses, businesses, schools, synagogues, and cemeteries were left behind and would pass to the State through a series of confiscation laws in the years that followed. The property was never returned or compensated.
This marked the definitive extinction of the Jewish presence in Libya, attested since the Hellenistic period and still living one generation earlier. The cemetery of Tripoli would be razed in the following decades.
- Period :
- Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
- Type :
- Pogrom
- Region :
- Egypt and Maghreb
- Country :
- Libye
Harvey E. Goldberg, *Jewish Life in Muslim Libya* ; Renzo De Felice, *Ebrei in un paese arabo*.