Ranj Abderrahman Cohen, an Iraqi Kurdish Jewish man, walks next to a ruined Jewish synagogue in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on July 5, 2020. - Jews were historically Iraq's second-largest religious sect, comprising 40 percent of Baghdad's population according to a 1917 census. But since the creation of Israel in 1948, regional tensions skyrocketed and anti-Semitic campaigns took hold, pushing most of Iraq's Jews to flee. Today, Iraqis have fond memories of Jewish friends and neighbours, including 82-year-old Farhadi, whose father owned a shop in a Jewish-majority district of Arbil. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP)