What happened to the Jews in 1948 AD?

1948 Anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania

The 1948 Anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania was a riot between the Jewish and Arab populations of Tripoli. Unlike the previous Tripoli pogrom, the Jewish community of Tripoli fought back against the Muslim rioters.

By

Local mob

Where

Tripolitania, Libya

1948 Cairo bombings

The 1948 Cairo bombings were several bombings which targeted the Jewish population of Cairo. The bombings claimed the lives of 70 Jews and 200 other Jews were wounded.

By

Unknown

Where

Cairo, Egypt

1948 anti-Jewish riots in Oujda and Jerada

1948 Oujda and Jerada Anti-Jewish pogrom: 1948 pogroms in the towns of Oujda and Jerada, Morocco. Deaths: 43.

By

Moroccan Muslim rioters

Where

Oujda, Morocco · Jerada, Morocco

Anti-Jewish demonstration and forced contribution to Arab League

After Israel's establishment a mob demonstration advanced on the Jewish quarter, and the Jewish community was compelled to contribute money to the Arab League fund.

By

Anti-Jewish mobs; Lebanese authorities

Where

Beirut, Lebanon

Anti-Jewish violence in Benghazi, June 1948

Small-scale violence broke out in mid-June 1948: several Jews were beaten, a shop was looted, and a synagogue caught fire before police restored order.

By

Arab rioters

Where

Benghazi, Cyrenaica, Libya

Arab shelling of Jewish areas of Jerusalem

Arab artillery shelled Jewish districts of Jerusalem, killing 170 civilians and injuring about a thousand.

By

Arab forces

Where

Jerusalem

British report 1,160 killed in eight weeks of fighting

After a battle outside Jerusalem killed ten Jews and two Arabs, British officials reported that in eight weeks 1,160 people had died (408 Jews, 721 Arabs, 12 British police and 19 civilians), while the wounded numbered 1,171 Arabs, 749 Jews, 37 British officers and 13 civilians.

By

Unknown

Hadassah medical convoy massacre

Hadassah medical convoy massacre: About 80 Jews on a civilian convoy to Mount Scopus enclave, including medical personnel, slaughtered by Muslim Arabs living in Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem against the indifference of the British forces during the inter-communal stage of the 1948 War. Deaths: 77.

By

Muslim Arabs living

Where

Jerusalem

June 1948 pogroms in Libya

Pogroms and riots struck the Jews of Tripoli in June 1948, forcing trainees to leave their farm. The Jewish quarter had to be defended.

By

Mob

Where

Tripoli, Tripolitania, Libya

Murder of Solomon Mikhoels in Minsk

The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee chairman was killed in Minsk; the murder was later acknowledged to be the work of the secret police on Stalin's orders.

By

Soviet secret police

Where

Minsk, Belarus

Old Jewish Quarter of Cairo Massacre

Old Jewish Quarter of Cairo Massacre: Bombing in Cairo, 1948.

By

Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

Where

Cairo, Egypt

Solomon Mikhoels, actor-director of the Moscow State Jewish Theater and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee is killed in a suspicious car accident (see MGB). Mass arrests of prominent Jewish intellectuals and suppression of Jewish culture follow under the banners of campaign on rootless cosmopolitanism and anti-Zionism.

By

Unknown

The Djereda was a pogrom against the tiny Jewish population of Jerada at the hands of the local Muslims. It ended with 43 Jews dead and around 150 Jews injured.

By

Unknown

Violence against Jews in Egypt

State of Israel established. Antisemitism in Egypt strongly intensified.

By

State of Israel

Where

Egypt

Violent attack on Zionist Organization branch in Bucharest

Jewish Communists organized a violent assault on the Bucharest branch of the Zionist Organization as part of the campaign against Zionism.

By

Jewish Communists

Where

Bucharest, Wallachia, Romania

Anti-Jewish riots and attacks in Damascus

Damascus experienced riots, burning of books and synagogues, bombings of Jewish neighborhoods, killing and looting aimed at Jews.

By

Unknown

Where

Damascus, Syria

Arab siege of Jewish Jerusalem

Arab attacks on supply convoys on the single road from the coast placed Jewish Jerusalem under virtual siege, with British troops doing little to stop them.

By

Arab forces

Where

Jerusalem

Postwar anti-Jewish riots and plunder

Antisemitic propaganda led to anti-Jewish riots and looting of Jewish property in summer 1946 and March 1948.

By

Mob

Where

Bratislava, Slovakia