UN Jewish refugees panel aims ‘to rectify history’

Israeli envoy Ron Prosor tells conference that it’s time to stop ignoring the plight of Jews who fled from Arab lands

NEW YORK — “It is time the world hears about the greatest untold story in the Middle East,” Minister Silvan Shalom said, his voice booming through the packed room in the heart of New York’s United Nations building.

Hosted by the Israeli Mission to the United Nations, the UN housed a panel for the second year running on Jewish refugees from Arab countries, which “aimed at helping to right the record of history,” explained Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents, an organization that co-hosted the panel.


The event featured esteemed panelists, testimonials of Jewish refugees from Arab countries, and the screening of Michael Grynszpan’s short film entitled “The Forgotten Refugees.”

Panelists included permanent representative of Israel to the UN, Ron Prosor, Minister of National infrastructure, Energy, and Water, Silvan Shalom, who himself is a Jewish refugee from the Tunisia, and American philanthropist and president of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald Lauder, a co-cost of the event.

The Justice for Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries conference drew UN delegates and others with the desire to learn about this untold element of Jewish history.


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