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Jun 2015
9m 11s

The Six Day War: A Jewish view

Bbc World Service
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In June 1967, the Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbours led to mobs attacking Jewish property and houses in several Arab capitals, and many Jews fleeing what had been their homes for generations. In the second of two programmes about the effects of the Six Day War, Witness talks to Liliana Seror, whose family were forced into hiding by anti-Jewish riots in Tripoli and who joined an exodus of Libyan Jews, bringing to an end a community that had been in Libya for more than 2,000 years.

(Photo: A Libyan Jewish family; today there are no Jews left in Libya. Credit: Pedazur Benattia/JIMENA)

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