freediver wrote on May 16
th, 2018 at 12:41pm:
Seriously Aussie? Can you not google these things yourself?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah#Zionist_Aliyah_(1882_on)
From 1948 until the early 1970s, around 900,000 Jews from Arab lands left, fled, or were expelled from various Arab nations.[34][35][36][37] In the course of Operation Magic Carpet (1949–1950), nearly the entire community of Yemenite Jews (about 49,000) immigrated to Israel.
Between 1882 and 1903, approximately 35,000 Jews immigrated to the southwestern area of Syria
Between 1904 and 1914, 40,000 Jews immigrated mainly from Russia to southwestern Syria following pogroms and outbreaks of anti-Semitism in that country.
Special operations were undertaken to evacuate Jewish communities perceived to be in serious danger, such as Operation Magic Carpet, which evacuated almost the entire Jewish population of Yemen, and Operation Ezra and Nehemiah, which airlifted most of the Jews of Iraq to Israel.[27] Nearly the entire Jewish population of Libya left for Israel around this time.
In the mid-1950s, a smaller wave of immigration began from North African countries such as Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Egypt, many of which were in the midst of nationalist struggles.
There are plenty more in the article.
Well, when I make bold assertions of fact, I do the readers the courtesy of providing the link.....not force them to go find for themselves.
It seems the migration you refer to occurred very soon after Israel was created.
In 2012, there were 300,000 US citizens living in Israel.
Link. I have provided links and quotes plenty of times already Aussie. For you specifically. I didn't realise I needed to repeat the process every time your memory failed you.