Mizrahi Jew
Mizrahi Jews or Oriental Jews (מזרחי "eastern", Standard Hebrew Mizraḥi, Tiberian Hebrew Mizrāḥî; plural מזרחים "easterners", Standard Hebrew Mizraḥim, Tiberian Hebrew Mizrāḥîm) are Jews of Middle-Eastern origin; that is to say, their ancestors never left the Middle-East. In Israel they are colloquially called Sephardi Jews, though technically the Mizrahi Jews never lived in Spain whereas the Sephardi Jews were expelled from Spain. Though there have been many languages associated with Mizrahi Jews, the most prominent was Judæo-Arabic; see also Mizrahi Hebrew language. Most Mizrahi Jewish communities outside Israel were destroyed after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, when Arab societies violently retaliated against their local Jewish populations.
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