(Times of Israel) Rich Tenorio - In the late 1930s, Philippines President Manuel Quezon welcomed over 1,200 Jews from Germany and Austria. Philippine ambassador to Israel Neal Imperial told the Times of Israel that while Quezon had wanted to bring tens of thousands of Jews to the Philippines to settle, his efforts were stymied by the U.S. government (which ruled the Philippines until 1946), which limited him to accept 1,000 Jews a year, over a 10-year period. Imperial said that the Japanese invasion of the Philippines on Dec. 8, 1941, brought the program to "an abrupt end."
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