Egypt مصر מצרים Egypte

6000 Years and its the same Authority

Egypt has not issued an official state apology or provided restitution for the mid-20th-century displacement, mistreatment, and confiscation of assets from its Jewish population

 

Six thousand years ago, Egypt began as a tapestry of local communities along the Nile, before uniting under various pharaohs. They guided it through nearly three millennia of remarkable stability, built famous monuments, and generated rich traditions. Over the last 2,500 years, the pharaonic era gradually opened up to dynamic new influences —from Greco-Roman rule and Islamic Caliphates to the Ottoman Empire— bringing new languages, beliefs, and governance that eventually shaped the modern country of Egypt we know today.

Jewish communities played a central and vibrant role in Egypt for thousands of years. From ancient times through the Hellenistic era, Jewish scholars in bustling Alexandria helped bridge cultures by translating the Hebrew Bible into Greek (the Septuagint). Centuries later, in 12th-century Cairo, famous thinker Moses Maimonides served as royal physician while teaching incisive philosophy.

By the early 20th century, a thriving Jewish community of nearly 80,000 helped build modern department stores, banks, railroads, industries and Egyptian cinema. However, the rise of geopolitical conflict in the mid-20th century triggered what is now called the "Second Exodus." Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the 1956 Suez Crisis, escalating nationalist tensions, severe civil-liberty restrictions, asset confiscations, and targeted expulsions under the regime of Gamal Abdel Nasser forced the entire Jewish population to abandon their homes and assets. Departing primarily for Israel, Europe, and the Americas, this mass displacement dismantled one of the world's oldest continuous Jewish diasporas in just a few decades, leaving behind a rich legacy in the Egyptian landscape, a fact which is unfortunately not taught to present-day Egyptians.