Invisible Refugees.(Jewish refugees from Arab lands)(Statistical Data Included)

The tragic plight of the Palestinian refugees has received considerable media attention, especially in recent weeks. Not much, however, has been said about another refugee problem created at the outset of the same war that led to the Palestinian exodus. Yes, the Arab attack against the newly born State of Israel in 1948 created not one, but two refugee problems.

A foreshadowing of tragic events to come took place in Syria just a few days after the 1947 UN Partition Resolution -- a pogrom in Aleppo, Syria, in which Jews were injured, synagogues burnt down, and Jewish pr