Diplomatic sources here told the JTA that no news has been received in recent weeks from Jews In Damascus and that all Jewish men living in the town of Aleppo have been imprisoned and their wives and children put under house arrest. There are at present 3500 Jews in Syria — 1000 in Aleppo, 2000 in Damascus and several hundred in Kamishli. In 1946, the Syrian Jewish population totaled 30,000. During the past few years, Palestinian refugees have moved into the Jewish neighborhoods, which, sources said, has made the Jewish community’s existence “very precarious.”
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