1947 anti-Jewish riots in Manama

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Contemporaneously with the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine, a riot against the Jewish community of Manama, in the British Protectorate of Bahrain, on December 5, 1947.

[1] A mob of Iranian and Trucial States sailors ran through the Manama Souq,[2] looted Jewish homes and shops, and destroyed the synagogue.

[4] The riots led to the sacking of the only synagogue in Bahrain, and resulted in the death of an elderly woman[1] and scores of Jews were injured.

[4] After the riots, Bahraini Jews left en masse, some emigrating to Israel, others to England or America.

[5] Houda Nonoo told the London Independent newspaper in 2007: "I don't think it was Bahrainis who were responsible.