It is not clear “a full-fledged expulsion [of Jews] happened” in Egypt, Eyal Sagui Bizawe writes in Haaretz, criticising new Israeli curriculum changes. Bizawe says that while Egypt put Jews “suspected of Zionist or communist activity” in detention camps, detained others without trial, and compelled a number a leave for reasons including fear and to be with family members who already fled, it is “indisputable that most of Egypt’s Jews were not expelled.” He says: “We can imagine rows of hooded soldiers gathering Egyptian Jews in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and giving them two options: convert to Islam or be expelled. Or even not giving them the choice but expelling them all. But such an event simply never occurred.”