TOPSHOTS A picture taken on August 12, 2015, show flags bearing the portrait of Shiite Islam's key figure Imam Ali, the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed, hanging on the door of an abandoned house in what was a Jewish neighbourhood in the Iraqi city of Hilla, south of Baghdad. Between 1948 and 1951 nearly all of Iraq's 2,500-year-old Jewish community fled amid a region-wide outbreak of nationalist violence. Prior to the exodus that followed the creation of Israel in 1948, Jews made up around a third of Baghdad's population and played a major role in the political, economic, and cultural life of the country. AFP PHOTO / HAIDAR HAMDANI