List of Jews from the Arab world


Until the 20th century, Jews accounted for a significant minority among the populations of West Asia and North Africa, which has mostly consisted of the Arab world since the early Muslim conquests. Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the majority of the Arab world's Jews—numbering around 900,000 people—left or were expelled in waves of mass movement that continued until the 1970s. Roughly 72% of these refugees were absorbed by Israel and the remainder largely by the Western world. This article provides a list of prominent Jews with either full or partial origins in the territory of the Arab world from as far back as the early medieval era.

Al-Andalus (Arab Spain)

Algeria

Bahrain

Egypt

Iraq

Kuwait

Libya

  • George Borba, footballer
  • Hila Klein, member of American-Israeli husband and wife duo h3h3Productions, best known for their YouTube channel of the same name. Family is of mixed Libyan and Iraqi Jewish heritage
  • Moses Hacmon, Israeli artist and architect. Family is of mixed Libyan Jewish, Turkish Jewish and Iraqi Jewish heritage
  • Yitzhak Tshuva, Libyan-born Israeli billionaire businessman
  • Moshe Kahlon, a retired Israeli politician, born to Libyan parents who immigrated from Tripoli
  • Yossef Romano was a Libyan-born Israeli weightlifter
  • Amos Lavi was a Libyan-born Israeli actor

Lebanon

Morocco

Saudi Arabia

Sudan

Syria

Tunisia

Yemen