Original sentence: From 1948 until the early 1970s between 800,000 to 1,000,000 Mizrachi and Sephardic Jews either fled from their homes or were expelled from Arab and Islamic countries; 260,000 reached Israel between 1948–1951, and 600,000 by 1972.The Jews of Egypt and Libya were forcibly expelled while those of Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and North Africa left as a result of a hostile atmosphere and growing political insecurity
Edited sentence: From 1948 until the early 1970s between 800,000 to 1,000,000 Mizrachi and Sephardic Jews were forced from their homes and expelled from Arab and Islamic countries; 260,000 reached Israel between 1948–1951, and 600,000 by 1972.The Jews of Egypt and Libya were forcibly expelled while those of Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and North Africa left as a result of the threat of a second Holocaust and growing political insecurity