Plans have been announced for a week-long series of events next year to mark the exodus of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab countries during the 20th century.
The centre-piece will be a commemorative international day, on February 17.
Lyn Julius, a co-founder of Harif — the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa — said; “A bill is currently going through the Knesset to make this law. And it will become a permanent fixture not just in Israel but, hopefully, around the world.”
Some 850,000 Jews left North Africa and the Middle East, leading to the near-disappearance of some of the oldest diaspora communities.