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Egyptian Jews constitute both one of the oldest and one of the youngest Jewish communities in the world. The historic core of the Jewish community in Egypt mainly consisted of Egyptian Arabic speaking Rabbanites and Karaites. Though Egypt had its own community of Egyptian Jews, after the Jewish expulsion from Spain more Sephardi and Karaite Jews began to migrate to Egypt, and then their numbers increased significantly with the growth of trading prospects after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. As a result, Jews from many territories of the Ottoman Empire as well as Italy and Greece started to settle in the main cities of Egypt, where they thrived. The Ashkenazi community, mainly confined to Cairo's Darb al-Barabira quarter, began to arrive in the aftermath of the waves of pogroms that hit Europe in the latter part of the 19th century.
In the 1950s, Egypt began to expel its Jewish population (estimated at between 75,000 and 80,000 in 1948),[3] also sequestering Jewish-owned property at this time.
As of 2016[update], the president of Cairo's Jewish community said that there were 6 Jews in Cairo, all women over age 65, and 12 Jews in Alexandria.[4][5] As of 2019[update], there were at least 5 known Jews in Cairo and as of 2017, 12 were still reported in Alexandria.[6] In December 2022, it was reported that only 3 Egyptian Jews were living in Cairo.[7]
^"Jews, by Country of Origin and Age". Statistical Abstract of Israel (in English and Hebrew). Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. 26 September 2011. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^"BDE: One Of The Last Jews In Egypt Passes Away". The Yeshiva World. 17 November 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
^The 1947 census gives 65,639, possibly too low. See Joel Beinin. The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: Culture, Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Introduction.
^"Egypt's Jewish community diminished to 6 women after death of Lucy Saul". Egypt Independent. 30 July 2016. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
^Parisse, Emmanuel (26 March 2017). "Egypt's last Jews aim to keep heritage alive". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
^Oster, Marcy (9 July 2019). "Only 5 Jews left in Cairo following death of Jewish community president". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
^Shawkat, Ahmed (15 December 2022). "How Egypt's last Jews will mark Hanukkah, and make sure their culture doesn't "disappear" with them". CBS News. Retrieved 2023-06-06.
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