JERUSALEM POST
Remembering the ethnic cleansing of the Middle East’s Jews
by Tzahi Gavrieli
November 29, 2017

My family was expelled from Iraq in 1951. My grandfather Haim owned a successful business with several trucks, while my grandmother Gazelle ran the home. They lived in a spacious three-story house while maintaining a simple life. For years my grandparents tried to maintain a good relationship with their Arab neighbors while practicing the same Jewish traditions that had been passed down in Iraq for centuries. All this came crashing down within weeks. With the creation of Israel, the Iraqi government declared that all of their property was to be stripped from them and nationalized while the local Jewish population was to be expelled. READ MORE