1967 Tripoli pogrom

Anti-Jewish pogrom in Libya 1967 Tripoli pogrom Tripoli, Kingdom of Libya 1967 06 the Six-Day War Jewish residents of Tripoli Pogrom, looting, arson 18 25 Muslim mobs, police officers Alitalia staff and crew members, Libyan secret police The 1967 Tripoli pogrom was an anti-Jewish pogrom which took place in the Libyan city of Tripoli.John Ronald Bruce St Historical Dictionary of Libya 2023-03-15 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-5381-5742-8 201 en Events Two major pogroms had occurred in Libya prior to the riots of 1967: One in 1945 which killed over 140 people and one in 1948 that killed 14.2021-10-11 Libya's Jewish graveyards were destroyed. They are being rebuilt online. https://www.jta.org/2021/10/11/global/despairing-of-physical-preservation-a-jewish-exile-from-libya-sets-up-virtual-cemeteries 2022-06-11 Jewish Telegraphic Agency en-UShttps://www.thejc.com/opinion/even-after-gadda-no-hope-of-a-jewish-future-kfvv35i8 Even after Gaddafi, no hope of a Jewish future 2022-06-11 www.thejc.com The 1967 riot broke out in response to the Six-Day War between Israel and the Arab world.Libyan "revolutionary Jew" to restore synagogue https://www.cbsnews.com/news/libyan-revolutionary-jew-to-restore-synagogue/ 2022-06-11 www.cbsnews.com 2 October 2011 en-US2019-06-05 5 giugno 1967, il pogrom a Tripoli https://www.lastampa.it/esteri/2019/06/05/news/5-giugno-1967-il-pogrom-a-tripoli-1.36538814/ 2022-06-11 La Stampa it Arab leaders, especially Gamal Abdel Nasser,Algemeiner The Libya's Jews: A Forgotten Consequence of 1967 https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/06/09/libyas-jews-a-forgotten-consequence-of-1967/ 2022-06-11 Algemeiner.com en-US broadcast public statements calling for the destruction of Israel and in support for the Arab cause. On the night of 5 June 1967, the same day the war started, a mob made up of hundreds of Muslim Libyans attacked Jewish homes and businesses in the city's Jewish Quarter, burning the Bet-El synagogue to the ground.1967 War - personal experiences Doris Keren-Gill - Libya https://www.sixdaywar.co.uk/jews_in_arab_countries_doris.htm 2022-06-11 www.sixdaywar.co.ukWhen Alitalia Personnel Saved Jews From a Pogrom en Haaretz https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2022-06-06/ty-article-magazine/.premium/when-alitalia-personnel-saved-jews-from-a-pogrom-in-libya/00000181-389a-d9f8-a1d5-bbffff550000 2022-06-11 Rioters attacked and set fire to Jewish houses, stores and cars, in addition to looting Jewish properties. A survivor recalled in 2017 he had been told that rioters at one point set a tire alight and threw it into a shop.Gerbi David 2017-06-05 The Jewish Holocaust in Tripoli: In 1967 June the 5th https://www.libyanexpress.com/the-jewish-holocaust-in-tripoli-in-1967-june-the-5th/ 2022-06-11 Libyan Express en-GB Of all Jewish assets, both public and private, 60% were destroyed. King Idris of Libya responded by ordering secret police to evacuate the Jewish population, transporting 3,000 Jews into a former British military base in the Libyan Desert. A group of rioters managed to disguise themselves as police officers during this operation, managing to kidnap and murder nine members of the Luzon family, including two parents and seven children. Staff and workers for the Italian Alitalia airline also reacted by shielding Jews who had fled to the airport for safety. Staff repelled rioting mobs from getting to the airport and managed to hand out numerous plane tickets to Jews. Alitalia's efforts were assisted by Chief Rabbi of Rome Elio Toaff and the Government of Italy.2022-05-10 Alitalia workers who saved Jews from 1967 pogrom in Libya - Libya http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/libya/2022/05/10/alitalia-worker-who-saved-jews-from-1967-pogrom-in-libya_0acc4e68-ea45-444d-a7dc-82d2236c17fe.html 2022-06-11 ANSAMed en 2022-06-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20220612222223/https://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/libya/2022/05/10/alitalia-worker-who-saved-jews-from-1967-pogrom-in-libya_0acc4e68-ea45-444d-a7dc-82d2236c17fe.html dead In total, 18 Jews were killed in the pogrom and at least 25 injured.Oren Michael B. http://archive.org/details/sixdaysofwarjune0000oren Six days of war : June 1967 and the making of the modern Middle East 2002 Oxford : Oxford University Press Internet Archive 978-0-19-515174-92016-11-30 B'nai Brith Canada's Tribute to Jews from Arab Lands: Part 2, Libya https://www.bnaibrith.ca/b_nai_brith_canada_s_tribute_to_jews_from_arab_lands_part_2_libya/ 2022-06-11 B'nai Brith Canada en-US The pogrom effectively ended the Jewish presence in Libya.Roumani Maurice The Final Exodus of the Libyan Jews in 1967 2007 https://www.jstor.org/stable/25834752 Jewish Political Studies Review 19 3/4 77–100 25834752 0792-335X 4,100 Jews managed to flee the country to Italy, including 2,500 who arrived to Rome via Alitalia. After Muammar Gaddafi took power in a 1969 coup, he ordered a persecution campaign against his country's Jewish minority, which led to the 100 remaining Jews fleeing the country.The Jews of Libya https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/general/the-jews-of-libya.html 2022-06-11 www.yadvashem.org en References Libya Category:20th-century attacks on Jewish institutions Category:1967 mass murders Category:June 1967 in Africa Category:1967 in Libya Category:Mass murders in Libya Category:Anti-Israeli sentiment in Libya Category:Anti-Jewish pogroms in North Africa Category:Antisemitism in Libya Category:Arson in Libya Category:Six-Day War Category:Gamal Abdel Nasser Category:1967 riots Category:1967 murders in Africa Category:Italy–Libya relations Category:Jewish Libyan history Category:Alitalia Category:Attacks on buildings and structures in Libya Category:Attacks on religious buildings and structures in Africa Category:Attacks on buildings and structures in 1967 Category:Arson in the 1960s Category:20th-century mass murders in Africa Pogrom, 1967 Category:Crime in Tripoli, Libya Category:Military history of Tripoli, Libya Category:Looting in Africa Category:Building and structure fires in Africa Category:Synagogues destroyed by arson Category:Synagogue arson Category:1967 in Judaism Category:Anti-Israeli sentiment in Africa Category:Anti-Zionism in Africa Category:Battles of Tripoli, Libya Category:Looting in the Arab–Israeli conflict