"How many Jews do you have to kill?" Being Jewish in Libya.

Gina Waldman was six-year-old when her teacher asked this question at school in Tripoli, Libya. Over the years things only got worse for the Jewish community, which was eventually expelled from Libya. Jewish presence in what are now Arab lands long predates Islam and the Arab conquest of the Middle East and goes back to Biblical times. In 1945, there were approximately 866,000 Jews living in communities throughout the Arab world. Today, there are fewer than 7,000. In many Arab states, once thriving Jewish communities have all but disappeared.