Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran
The Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran (Hebrew: יום לציון היציאה והגירוש של היהודים מארצות ערב ומאיראן "Yom l-Tziyon HaYetziah V'HaGerush Shel HaYehudim M'Artzot Arav Ume'Iran") is a Memorial Day that is marked in Israel every year starting in 2014, on November 30 with the purpose of marking the departure and expulsion of Jews from Arab countries and Iran. November 30 is the date that was chosen since it is symbolically the day following November  29, a day the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was adopted, and when many communities of Jews in Arab countries and Iran started to feel the pressure and hostility from their Arab and Persian neighbors and as a result of that were forced to leave their countries. It is based on a law sponsored by MK Shimon Ohayon (Yisrael Beiteinu) and passed in the summer of 2014 by the Knesset. For many Mizrahi Jews in Israel it is considered to be a belated recognition of their collective trauma, after years of what many of them claimed to be the  marking of European Jewry suffering only from the part of Israel, and mainly the marking of 1948 Palestinian exodus only from the part of the Arab countries. The Knesset established this observance in 2014. The purpose of this observance is to recognize the collective trauma of Mizrahi Jews during the period around the establishment of the State of Israel. Many Mizrachi Jews felt that their own suffering was being ignored, both in comparison to the suffering of European Jewry during the Holocaust and in comparison to the 1948 Palestinian exodus. The Gregorian-calendar date chosen is the day after the  United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was adopted, as that date marked the beginning of concentrated pressure and hostility against the community. Memorialization in Israel. May 9, 2021, the first physical memorialization in Israel of the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from Arab lands and Iran was placed on the Sherover Promenade in Jerusalem. The text on the Memorial reads; "With the birth of the State of Israel, over 850,000 Jews were forced from Arab Lands and Iran. The desperate refugees were welcomed by Israel. By Act of the Knesset: Nov. 30, annually, is the Departure and Expulsion Memorial Day . Memorial donated by the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, With support from the World Sephardi Federation, City of Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Foundation" The sculpture is the interpretive work of Sam Philipe, a fifth generation Jerusalemite.