 As a result, Syria lifted many restrictions on its Jewish community, and allowed Jews to leave on condition that they not immigrate to Israel.Beginning on the Passover Holiday of 1992, 4,000 remaining members of the Damascus Jewish community (Arabic "Yehud ash-Sham") as well as the Aleppo community and the Jews of Qamishli, were granted exit permits.Within a few months, thousands of Syrian Jews left for the United States, France or Turkey with the help of philanthropic leaders of the Syrian Jewish community.