Wadi Abu Jamil

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Wadi Abu Jamil, located in Beirut's Centre Ville, was the Jewish quarter in Beirut, Lebanon. The quarter was the center of the Lebanese Jewish community, with Beirut's largest and most important synagogue, the Maghen Abraham Synagogue, (now abandoned and dilapidated), located there. The neighborhood was home to Lebanon's centuries-old Jewish community and also for the more recent Jewish refugees from Syria and Iraq.

Although the greater part of the community had already emigrated after the 1958 Crisis and the Lebanese Civil War, Yasir Arafat's PLO forces who occupied it and the Christian Phalangists actually protected the neighborhood during the 1982 Lebanon War. However, the presence of Palestine Liberation Organization forces in the quarter led to an Israeli bombardment that damaged the Maghen Abraham Synagogue.