Scott: How many Jewish people live in Libya?
I am doing a project in class, and i cant seem to find the population of Jewish people that live in Libya?
Answers and Views:
Answer by Russo
there are few jewish people who live in libya right now since they are kicked out of the country
but in 2004, when they allowed jewish people to return to libya. So the number could be fewer than one thousand (my estimate)
In 2002 after all of the Jews had their property confiscated and debts to them cleared and after many of then were killed or kicked out one of the oldest Jewish community (since -300) had no more Jews living there. I don’t know if they allowed Jews to return but, I assume that if they did then the number of Jews their would be very small.Answer by The Sage
Gaddafi’s rule
By the time Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi came to power in 1969 only about 100 Jews remained in Libya; under his rule, all Jewish property was confiscated, all debts to Jews were canceled and emigration for Jews was legally prohibited. Still some Jews succeeded in leaving the country and by 1974, only 20 Jews lived in Libya.[5] In 2002, the last known Jew in Libya, Esmeralda Meghnagi, died and it was thought that the long history of Jewry in Libya had ended[4]. In the same year, however, it was discovered that Rina Debach, a then 80-year old woman, who was born and raised in Tripoli, but thought to be dead by her family in Rome, was still living in a nursing home in the country. With her ensuing departure for Rome, there were no more Jews in the country.[6][7]
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