According to historian Renato Podbersič, Jews needed an exit visa to move out of Yugoslavia after 1948, which they mostly would not get unless they had given up their property to the new state.
Not many Jews moved out from Slovenia, also because the Jewish population here was small compared to the neighbouring countries or republics.
Podberšič says that data from the Belgrade archives indicate that just over 100 Slovenian Jews moved to Israel between 1945 and 1990. The last family to move there were the Bondis in the late 1980s, followed by a few individuals.
Igor Vojtic, the vice-chairman of the Jewish Community in Slovenia, says exact data on how many Jews moved from Slovenia to Israel at the time of its foundation are not available.
"Our estimate - considering that most community members have relatives in Israel - is that some 200 people moved there from today's Slovenia, most by 1948 and sometime later," he told the STA.
Ten Slovenians have so far won the title of Righteous Among the Nations, an honorific used by Israel for non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.
The honour, bestowed by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, will be presented to the descendants of five more Righteous, Vojtic said, while there are also some on the lists of other former Yugoslav republics.
Vojtic is not happy about the position of the Jewish community in Slovenia today, reporting that their basic rights to the freedom of religion were being violated.
He complained about the negative disposition to Jews, especially from the left political bloc, and about the community's inability to get compensation for the synagogue in the centre of Murska Sobota which was demolished in 1954, or get a building in Ljubljana to open a Jewish cultural centre and a synagogue.
The Maribor Synagogue, the third oldest such building preserved in Europe, has been home to the Centre of Jewish Cultural Heritage since 2011.
Vojtic lauded the centre for its successful work in the field of heritage, but he also said that it was focused too much on the past, and failed to speak out in response to growing antisemitism.
"There is a new antisemitism prevailing in Slovenia, one that is in fact covert because of historical experience, so it is manifested through hatred to Israel."
Vidic also noted ideological intolerance, which is "based on cultural Marxism and the ideology of post-colonialism which identifies Jews with imperialists, capitalists and the culprits for all troubles, if not the western world then at least of the Middle East".
"The arrival of larger numbers of migrants from Syria, Iraq and the retreating jihadists will bring Slovenia for the first time face to face with aggressive Islamic antisemitism, which has been implanted in children in the public systems of these countries. This is a threat not only to us Jews and Israel, but also to the entire Western Christian civilisation," said Vojtic.
According to historian Podbersič, antisemitism has been present in Slovenia despite the small number of Jews. A survey conducted last year showed that Slovenians, most of whom do not know any Jews personally, ranked Jews second when asked who they would not want to have as a neighbour.
The Jewish Community would not say how many Jews live in Slovenia today. Before WWII, the biggest Jewish community in Slovenia lived in the north-eastern region of Prekmurje.
Podberšič says that while 70,000 Jews lived in Yugoslavia according to a census before WWII, there were 1,500 of them at the most in the Slovenian part of Yugoslavia. During the war more than 60,000 Yugoslav Jews perished.
Jews first settled on the territory between today's Slovenia and Italy in the period of Ancient Rome, but did not settle in Slovenian lands until the 10th century.
They were never a large community, but they did make a mark on the economic development of this part of the world, Podbersič told the STA in an interview.
While Israel celebrated its 70th anniversary earlier last week, Slovenian Jews will mark the anniversary in Ljubljana in the autumn.
