In 2014, the Knesset officially designated Nov. 30 as Yom Haplitim (The Day Marking the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from Arab Countries and Iran) to commemorate the flight of more than 850,000 Jews in the mid-20th century.

This year, hundreds of Israelis with roots in those countries converged on the National Library of Israel (NLI) in Jerusalem on Sunday, Nov. 30, to take part in an event titled “Sephardi Voices: The Other Refugees—The Untold Stories of Sephardi-Mizrachi Jews.”

They came to share their experiences, view artifacts from Jewish life in Arab countries and Iran and celebrate the addition to the NLI of the Sephardi Voices documentation project that will preserve and amplify their stories.

Sephardi Voices is an international heritage project that has been collecting

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