Bombing of Masauda Shemtov synagogue in Iraq Date: 14 Jan 1951 http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/db.php?eid=59 On 14 January 1951, a bomb exploded at the Masauda Shemtov synagogue in Iraq. Ekhak Salman, a seven-year-old Jewish boy, was killed and 27 Jews were injured. Coming after a series of earlier bombings (see timeline), this bomb led to the flight of tens of thousands of Iraqi Jews, the almost complete dissolution of one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world.
It was later revealed that the bombs had been planted by Zionist agents who wanted to stampede Iraqi Jews into migrating to Israel.