Exodus Commemoration is antidote to denial

Professor Mohamed Aboulghar is a busy man—an obstetrician, politician and amateur historian who has published two books on the Jews of Egypt. Apparently, they are selling like hotcakes. At a recent Zoom meeting, however, his assertion that few Jews had been driven out after the 1956 Suez crisis, and that the rest had left of their own free will, provoked outrage. (Photo shows aftermath of the Fez 1912 Tritl, in which 45 Jews died)  Read more