During World War II, a Jewish American Army enlisted man, Emanuel Glick, encountered a small community of Omani Jews in Muscat, but this community consisted mostly of recent migrants from Yemen. In 1948 there was a recorded Jewish population of 5,000 people. The Jewish people living in Oman mostly lived in Muscat, with a few hundred living in Ibri. The Jewish population decreased during the early 1950s when Jews were expelled from the Arabian Peninsula. Today the community no longer exists and most of the Jews that lived in Oman now live in Israel.