Bulgarian Jews in
Israel
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are Jewish immigrants and descendants of the immigrants of the Bulgarian Jewish communities, who now reside within the state of Israel. They number around 75,000 in the wider definition, and 7,500 in the narrower scope (those with Bulgarian citizenship).
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History
After the establishment of the state of Israel, most of the Bulgarian Jewish population left
Left may refer to:
Music
* ''Left'' (Hope of the States album), 2006
* ''Left'' (Monkey House album), 2016
* ''Left'' (Helmet album), 2023
* "Left", a song by Nickelback from the album ''Curb'', 1996
Direction
* Left (direction), the relativ ...
for Israel
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, leaving only about a thousand Bulgarian Jews living in Bulgaria today (1,162 according to the 2011 census). According to Israeli government statistics, 43,961 people from Bulgaria emigrated to Israel between 1948 and 2006, making Bulgarian Jews in Israel the fourth largest group to come from a European country, after the Soviet Union
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, Romania
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and Poland
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.
Notable people
* Binyamin Arditi
* Gabi Ashkenazi
*Menachem Ashkenazi
Menachem Ashkenazi (; 6 August 1934 – 13 November 2000) was an Israeli international association football, football Referee (association football), referee, born in Bulgaria, active during the 1960s and 1970s. He was the first Asian referee wh ...
* Michael Bar-Zohar
* Shimon Bejarano
* Albert Cohen
* Ya'akov Eilon
* Moshe Gueron
* Avner Hizkiyahu
* Shlomo Kalo
* Rafael Moshe Kamhi
* Oshrat Kotler
* Shabtai Konorti
* Shmuel Levi
* Yehuda Levi
* Emanuel Levy
* Raphael Mechoulam
* Moni Moshonov
*Aryeh Moskona
Aryeh Moskona (; born 29 July 1947) is an Israeli actor, voice actor and singer.
References
External links
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1947 births
Living people
Israeli male film actors
Israeli male voice actors
Israeli male stage actors
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* Ya'akov Nehoshtan
* Ya'akov Nitzani
* Avraham Ofek
* Israel Pincas
* David Primo
* Albert Salomon
* Victor Shem-Tov
* Rachamim Talbi
* Rami Yosifov
* Daniel Zion
* Emanuel Zisman
See also
*Aliyah
''Aliyah'' (, ; ''ʿălīyyā'', ) is the immigration of Jews from Jewish diaspora, the diaspora to, historically, the geographical Land of Israel or the Palestine (region), Palestine region, which is today chiefly represented by the Israel ...
* History of the Jews in Bulgaria
*Jewish ethnic divisions
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* Bulgaria–Israel relations
References
Israeli Jews by national origin
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