after the 1947 un partition plan which envisaged partitioning palestine into jewish and arab states, three days of protests and marches erupted. on the third day, the demonstrators began rioting. jewish homes were looted and the only synagogue on the island in the capital city of manama, was razed to the ground by foreign arab rioters. even though the tensions resulted in jews emigrating to britain and the united states, another synagogue was built for those who remained.