Mizrahi Jews in Israel
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Mizrahi Jews in Israel constitute one of the largest Jewish ethnic divisions among Israeli Jews, with some 607.9 thousand Jews being immigrants and first generation descendants by paternal lineage of Iraqi, Iranian, Yemenite, Egyptian, Pakistani and Indian Jewish communities, traditionally associated with the Mizrahi Jews. Many more Israeli Jews are second and third generation Mizrahi descendants or have a partial Mizrahi origin. The other dominant sub-groups are the Israeli Ashkenazi Jews and Sephardic Jews. Often Mizrahi and North African Sephardic Jews in Israel are grouped together due to the similarity of their history under Muslim rule and an overwhelming migration out of their countries of residence during the 20th century. If combined, Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews are numbering about one half of Israeli Jews.
Israeli Mizrahim are descended from Jews in the Middle East and Central Asia, from Babylonian and Persian heritage ,who had lived for many generations under Muslim rule during the Middle Ages. The vast majority of them left the Muslim-majority countries during the Arab–Israeli conflict, in what is known as the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.
