According to the draft for a new constitution for Iraq, approved by a parliamentary committee in Baghdad, tens of thousands of Iraqi Jews who emigrated to Israel in the 1950s will not get back their Iraqi citizenship. The document says that only Iraqis who lost their citizenship after Saddam Hussein's Baath party came to power in 1963 "will be allowed to get it back." 134,000 Jews lived in the country in 1948, many of whom emigrated to Israel and other countries due to a rise in discrimination in Iraq. When the Sunnite Baath party took power in 1963, only few Jews were left in Iraq. Today, only several dozen Jews live in Iraq.