þÿ<html> <head> <title>Baha's Members of Family - Shoghi Effendi - Bahais in Palestine and Shoghi Effendi s pre-graduations</title> </head> <body background=border01.jpg style="margin:0"> <?php require_once "../../hitFunction.php"; regHit("bahaFam2-18-7.html"); ?> <p>&nbsp;</p> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="77"></td> <td width="20" style="background-color:#99ccff;"></td> <td width="600" style="text-align:justify; font-family:Arial; font-size:11.00pt; background:#99ccff;"> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-left:110; text-indent:-50; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px;"><span style="font-size:13pt; color:brown;">2.18.7&nbsp;Bahais in Palestine and Shoghi Effendi s pre-graduations</span><br> According to the Handbook of Palestine, by Harry Charles Luke (Late Sir Harry Luke). Assistant governor of Jerusalem and late Edward Keith-Rouch, Assistant Chief Secretary to the government of Palestine, 1922, P. 33, total number of Bahais in Palestine stood at 158. During Shoghi Effendi s tenure of office, notorious for its expulsions and excommunications, this number decreased. <br> <br> During the Arab-Israeli war Bahais of Sir Abbas Effendi s followers, including members of his own family, as well as Bahais of the followers of Mirza Muhammad Ali, fled the country and sought refuge in the neighbouring countries, such as the Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the United Arab Republic. A sprinkling of them of either camp remained in Palestine. On the intervention of the Iranian government, some of these émigrés were repatriated to Israel, where they retained their Iranian nationality entitled to domicile. Most of these repatriates have since left the country and took their permanent residence abroad. While some of the émigrés did not go back at all and elected to remain in the host countries. <br> <br></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p style="color:Red;">To read more about Baha's members of family, got to the main page, select 'Bahaism -> Baha's Members of Family' and navigate through the index.</p> <form >You can view <a href="/notes/BahaFamily/bahaFam2-18-8.html">next note</a>, view <a href="/notes/BahaFamily/bahaFam2-18-6.html">previous note</a>, go to the <a href="/.">main page</a>, or close this window: <INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Close Window" onClick="window.close()" style="width:80px; height:20px; font-size:8pt;"> </FORM> </td> <td width="20" style="background-color:#99ccff;"></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>