| 1948 Cairo bombings | |
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| Part of 1948 Arab-Israeli War | |
| Location | Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt |
| Date | June–September, 1948 |
| Target | Egyptian Jews |
Attack type | Bombings |
| Deaths | 70 Jews killed |
| Injured | 200 wounded |
| Part of a series on |
| Jewish exodus from the Muslim world |
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| Background |
| Antisemitism in the Arab world |
| Exodus by country |
| Remembrance |
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The 1948 bombings in Cairo, which targeted Jewish areas, took place during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, between June and September, and killed 70 Jews and wounded nearly 200. Riots claimed many more lives.[1]
In a meeting with the American Jewish Committee in New York in October 1948, the president of Cairo's Sephardi Jewish community, Salvator Cicurel, stated his belief that "the recent anti-Jewish outbreaks…[were] connected with the existence of Israel and the defeats of the Egyptian Army there."[2][3]
- ^ Mangoubi, Rami, "A Jewish Refugee Answers Youssef Ibrahim", Middle East Times, October 30, 2004.
- ^ "Meeting with Mr. Securel of Cairo, Egypt", October 28, 1948, AJC/FAD-1, Box 12, Foreign Countries, Egypt
- ^ Beinin, Joel (1998), The Dispersion Of Egyptian Jewry Culture, Politics, And The Formation Of A Modern Diaspora, University of California Press, c1998. Amer Univ in Cairo Pr, 2005, ISBN 977-424-890-2