- Population
- ~30,000-35,000 Rabbanite Jews of Egyptian origin (two generations); 49,300 with the Egyptian Karaites (2023)
- Location
- Haifa (Kiryat Haim), Holon, Bat Yam, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and southern towns such as Kiryat Malakhi
Egyptian Jews came to Israel in three waves that followed the wars of 1948, 1956 and 1967: about 14,000 in 1948-1950, some 13,500 refugees expelled after the Suez war of 1956, and over 10,000 after 1967, when hundreds of Jewish men were held in Egyptian prison camps. They came from a cosmopolitan, largely urban community in Cairo and Alexandria that spoke French, Italian, Ladino and Egyptian Arabic, and many were educated in French and Alliance schools. In Israel they settled mostly in Haifa and the Tel Aviv area and assimilated quickly into Hebrew-speaking life, while associations of Jews from Egypt record testimonies, commemorate lost synagogues and seek recognition for property left behind. At Passover, many families retell the Exodus with their own story of leaving Egypt with nothing.