Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
Confiscation of Jewish property
21 juill. 1970·Libye
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a decree transfers to the State all property of Libyan Jews, the final act in a series of exactions; promised Treasury bonds are never honored
The decree of July 21, 1970 transfers to the Libyan state the entirety of property belonging to the Jews of Libya — houses, businesses, land, accounts, synagogues, and cemeteries — in exchange for fifteen-year Treasury bonds that would never be honored. It comes to complete a series of dispossessions begun with the postwar pogroms and continued after the Six-Day War.
There was almost no one left to dispossess: the community, one of the oldest in the Mediterranean, attested in Tripoli and Cyrene since Antiquity, had already fled in waves toward Israel and Italy. The decree transforms into legal spoliation an exile already accomplished, and juridically erases a presence of more than two millennia.
- Period :
- Post-war and Arab world (1945–1970)
- Type :
- Persecution
- Region :
- Egypt and Maghreb
- Country :
- Libye
Journal officiel libyen ; archives de la communauté juive de Tripoli et travaux sur les Juifs de Libye.