Stanford University Press Impossible exodus: iraqi jews in israel, paperback/orit bashkin

Between 1949 and 1951, 123, 000 Iraqi Jews immigrated to the newly established Israeli state.

Lacking the resources to absorb them all, the Israeli government resettled them in maabarot, or transit camps, relegating them to poverty.

In the tents and shacks of the camps, their living conditions were squalid and unsanitary.