Jews in Arab countries suffered unbearable discrimination. Why do our stories remain untold?

LOS ANGELES (JTA) – Thursday is World Refugee Day. And according to the United Nations page devoted to this commemoration, every minute 20 people leave everything behind to escape war, persecution or terror.

I am one of those people.

In 1948, when I was 6 months old, my mother risked everything to escape Tunisia with my siblings and me in search of a better life. My father stayed behind until he could meet us years later at our final destination. We crammed into a ship called the Negba and endured a difficult journey to France. We waited for a year until it was our turn, at last, to enter the land that my mother had always considered our home: Eretz Israel.

Originally published here: https://www.jta.org/2019/06/20/opinion/jews-in-arab-countries-suffered-unbearable-discrimination-why-do-our-stories-remain-untold