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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 730940, member: 301&quot;]Sorry , I can&#039;t touch this, other than to say , you get your first tefillin for your Bar Mitzva and you usually keep them for life.</p><p>They are as personal a religious item as any in the world, &amp; I know of no market for used ones in such terrible condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1950s, Egypt began to expel its Jewish population (estimated at between 75,000 and 80,000 in 1948),<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Egypt#cite_note-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Egypt#cite_note-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a> also sequestering Jewish-owned property at this time.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2016, an article in an Egyptian periodical contained a quote from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magda_Tania_Haroun&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Magda_Tania_Haroun&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow">Magda Tania Haroun</a> (a spiritual leader of the Jews in Egypt) which seemed to imply that there were only 6 Jews remaining in the entire country, all of them women over age 65.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Egypt#cite_note-egyptindependent.com-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Egypt#cite_note-egyptindependent.com-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> However, a subsequent article in another periodical clarified that she was specifically referring to the Jews remaining in Cairo (where she is based) and that there are a further 12 Jews in the city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria" rel="nofollow">Alexandria</a>, whose spiritual leader is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ben_Youssef_Gaon&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ben_Youssef_Gaon&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" rel="nofollow">Ben Youssef Gaon</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>For all I know these could have been taken off dead Israeli soldiers in the Sinai , during the Yom Kippur War in 73...............[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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