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During British rule, and under King Fuad, Egypt was friendly towards its Jewish population, although many of them were not allowed to claim Egyptian nationality as they were recent immigrants. Jews played important roles in the economy, and the Jewish population climbed to nearly 100,000 as Jews settled in Egypt while fleeing increasing persecution in Eastern Europe. One of the most famous Jews of this period was Yaqub Sanu, an Egyptian Jew of Italian heritage. Despite his Italian roots and his religion, he was a patriotic Egyptian nationalist who advocated the removal of the British, and he edited the nationalist publication Abu Nazara 'Azra from exile. This was one of the first magazines written in Egyptian Arabic, and it consisted of mostly satire, poking fun at the British as well as the Monarchy which was a puppet of the British.
By the 1940s, the situation worsened, as a number of pogroms were launched against the Jewish population, incited by Amin al-Husayni, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, starting in 1942. Egypt became an increasingly hostile location for Jews as the partition of Palestine and the founding of Israel drew closer, and rising nationalism led to attacks against all "foreigners". In 1947, the Company Laws placed quotas on the number of Jews (and foreigners) allowed to work at any one company.
After the foundation of Israel in 1948, all Egyptian Jews became suspect, and the situation of the community became untenable. That year, bombings of Jewish areas killed 70 Jews and wounded nearly 200, while riots claimed many more lives. The Lavon Affair, in which some Egyptian Jews working as Israeli agents attacked Western targets exacerbated a general distrust of the indigenous Jewish communities by other Egyptians. In 1956 Egypt expelled almost 25,000 indigenous Jews and confiscated their property as part of the Sinai campaign, and 1,000 more Jews were imprisoned. On November 23, 1956, a proclamation was issued stating that "all Jews are Zionists and enemies of the state," and it promised that they would be soon expelled. Thousands of Jews left, forced to sign declarations that they were doing so voluntarily, and allowing their property to be confiscated. Foreign observers reported the taking of hostages. After 1967, more confiscations took place.
The result was the almost complete disappearance of the Jewish community in Egypt, only a hundred or so remain. Most Egyptian Jews fled to Israel (35,000), Brazil (15,000), France (10,000), the US (9,000) or Argentina (9,000). Today, anti-Zionism is common in the media, and the Jewish population is minimal -- the last Jewish wedding took place in 1984.