Jerusalem memorial to Jewish refugees is completed

A memorial to the 850,000 Jews driven from Arab countries has finally been completed and sited on the Haas promenade in Jerusalem. The family group is inspired by a photo of the Zviv family, who fled Yemen for Israel in 1949. Understanding the pain of the Other is a leap forward to thwarting one-sided bigotry and increase understanding, argues Jerry Klinger in this Times of Israel  article: 

 As the missiles of terror and death to the Jews crashed randomly into Israel without regard or concern for civilian life, a unique memorial, the first ever in the world and certainly Israel, was erected prominently sited on Jerusalem’s Haas Promenade.

 It is a memorial messaged that very few in the non-Jewish world, especially the Muslim world, know about. 

Unfortunately, too many in the Jewish world know little about it too. The Memorial is formally titled the Departure and Expulsion Memorial. The title follows the theme of a long-overdue Knesset Law passed in 2014. 

 The law requires the teaching of what happened to the Jews from Arab lands and Iran with the birth of Israel. 

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Memorial to Jewish refugees to be sited in Jerusalem