{"id":118529,"date":"2025-11-06T11:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/118529\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:55:07","slug":"new-documentary-asks-was-israel-behind-the-1951-baghdad-synagogue-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/118529\/","title":{"rendered":"New Documentary Asks: Was Israel Behind the 1951 Baghdad Synagogue Bombing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"rXoKk hYDRe hnysah jUVRgC gZAOgR kTHets jRwofS qSgdC brXQGp kHlstv eeFyyU krpnci cLDOsk cgtMrY TSpXR dUvWpK hRLVFh idISHb\">On January 4, 1951, a loud explosion devastated the Masouda Shem-Tov synagogue in the heart of Baghdad. &#8220;The Synagogue was bombed from a nearby house (\u2026) I managed to escape with the rest of the crowd \u2013 some 600-700 people \u2013 who fled in panic&#8221; Ezra Naim, a Jewish man who had emigrated from Iraq, told a Davar journalist a couple of weeks later. The rumor circulating among Baghdad Jews at the time was that emissaries of Israel had thrown the grenade into the synagogue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On January 4, 1951, a loud explosion devastated the Masouda Shem-Tov synagogue in the heart of Baghdad. &#8220;The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14304,1155,85,6605,46,70087,954,75909,43,75910],"class_list":["post-118529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-aliyah","tag-human-rights","tag-il","tag-iraq","tag-israel","tag-israel-intelligence","tag-israeli-politics","tag-mizrahi","tag-news","tag-synagogues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}