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David Shuker, ‘Last Jew of Saudi Arabia,’ dies at 82

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:09:43 +0000

Shuker, an Israeli said to be the last survivor of the Najran Jewish community, was expelled with his community after the State of Israel was declared in 1948

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Yemenite synagogue in central Israel vandalized, holy books ripped apart

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 21:21:39 +0000

Mishkan Shalom Synagogue decries 'pogrom,' community member calls it 'terror attack'; police yet to identify motive or suspects

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Research center works to save myriad Hebrew dialects shaped by millennia of wandering

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:18:15 +0000

Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language has been preserving a treasure trove of accents and pronunciations that are swiftly becoming lost by its own work to standardize language

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How an Arab country helped Israel rescue Yemen’s last Jews, and settle them in Cairo

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 07:54:54 +0000

In 2021, nearly 100 Yemenite Jews were evacuated from a secure compound in Sana'a amid civil war. But one of them, Salem Levi Marhabi, was forced to stay; he is still held in a Houthi prison

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Major Judaica trove amassed by Yemenite Jewish butcher donated to National Library

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 20:17:32 +0000

Put together over 50 years by Yehuda Levi Nahum, collection includes translated Maimonides manuscripts and writings by key Yemenite Jewish writers

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Fate of Yemenite baby determined after DNA from exhumed body matches relatives’

Sun, 25 Sep 2022 09:56:21 +0000

Forensic scientists confirm grave belongs to Yosef Melamed, whose remains were the first of 9 due to be tested as part of probe into Yemenite children affair

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Yemen restores Jewish cemetery, remainder of a once booming, now long-gone community

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:22:32 +0000

Restoration of the 160-year-old burial ground that had been neglected for years began with civil organizations, before being picked up by government

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Experts said to identify DNA from remains exhumed in state kidnapping probe

Tue, 09 Aug 2022 15:52:22 +0000

Genetic profile successfully reconstructed for first time in Yemenite Children Affair; results to be compared with Yosef Melamed's relatives to see if exhumed remains belong to him

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Yemenite spice shop owner, 102, oldest ever to light Independence Day torch

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 09:58:54 +0000

Spiritual mentor Yaish Giat will wish that 'our nation love one another, that people will respect one another'

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As 13 Yemeni Jews leave pro-Iran region for Cairo, community of 50,000 down to 6

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:24:26 +0000

Family confirmed to depart for Egypt in deal with Houthis; country's remaining half-dozen Jews live in areas controlled by Iranian-backed militias but seem to want to stay

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Some of Yemen’s last remaining Jews said expelled by Iran-backed Houthis

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:07:45 +0000

13 members of three families reportedly transferred to another country, with efforts underway to bring them to Israel; exit said part of deal to free imprisoned Jewish man

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Man said to be Israel’s oldest dies at 117

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 05:41:59 +0000

Shlomo Sulayman, who his family says was born in 1903, immigrated from Yemen; grandson says pandemic-caused isolation and not going to synagogue damaged his health

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UAE helps reunite Yemenite Jewish family that was separated for 15 years

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 10:33:57 +0000

'My soul felt reborn,' one relative says at Abu Dhabi airport ceremony; tweeting about reunion, Emirati FM Abdullah bin Zayed hails his country as 'homeland of coexistence'

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Prophets, priests, Jewish kings: Ancient Yemen made vivid in Jerusalem exhibit

Sat, 07 Mar 2020 07:54:22 +0000

Bible Lands Museum tells the story of Jews in south Arabia, where they once ruled, made war, traded spice with Rome and longed for the Holy Land

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High Court says lawsuit on disappeared Yemenite children should be heard

Tue, 24 Dec 2019 11:30:42 +0000

Families suing the state for responsibility over 11 kids who vanished after arriving in the country in 1950s; justices cite 'worrying concerns about pattern of action'

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