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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/03/19/gaza-like-you-never-knew-it/
A Jewish Community in Gaza
(Israel Hayom) Nadav Shragai - Journalist Haggai Hoberman has just published A Jewish Community in Gaza, which tells the unknown story of the Jews who lived there for generations until the early 20th century. He reveals that once, Gaza was home to Islamic religious leaders who welcomed the Jews. In 1910, the newsletter HaPoel HaTzair reported that "relations between Arabs and Jews are very good, and no Jew has ever suffered in Gaza for being a Jew." The Jews fled Gaza in the Arab riots of 1929, with the help of city dignitary Hajj Said a-Shawa, whose son Rashad would become the mayor of Gaza in the 1970s.