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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 343

Igbos

Igbo Jewish leader Lizben Agha (courtesy)
August 9, 2021, 5:00 pm
Nigeria releases local Jewish leader who was arrested with Israeli filmmakers
Igbo community’s Lizben Agha, held for a month without charges, is freed almost two weeks after Israeli trio sent home
By Lazar Berman
Three Israeli filmmakers held in Nigeria for 20 days pictured after their release, on their flight from Abuja to Istanbul before boarding a plane for Israel, July 28, 2021 (courtesy)
August 2, 2021, 3:59 pm
‘We didn’t know if they’d execute us’: Full saga of Israeli trio held in Nigeria
How 3 Israeli filmmakers who came to document Igbo Jews found themselves locked in a dark cage with terrorists in a Nigerian prison
By Lazar Berman
Three Israeli filmmakers held in Nigeria for 20 days prepare to board a flight from Abuja to Istanbul on their way home, July 28, 2021. From L-R, Andrew Leibman, Rudy Rochman, Deputy Ambassador Yotam Kreiman, David Benaim (Israel Embassy in Nigeria)
July 29, 2021, 12:21 pm
Israeli filmmakers arrive home after 20 days in Nigerian prison
Lapid thanks his staff, Nigerian authorities for working to free trio suspected of contact with Biafran separatists, says Israel worked with French, US embassies to secure release
By Lazar Berman
(L-R) Deputy French Ambassador to Nigeria Olivier Chatelais, David Benaym, Andrew Leibman, Acting Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria Yotam Kreinman, US Embassy in Nigeria FBI Legal Attaché Ahmadi Uche, Deputy US Ambassador to Nigeria Kathleen FitzGibbon, Abuja Chabad Rabbi Mendy Sternbach; US citizens services representative in Nigeria, Rudy Rochman and Gabbi Kreinman pose for a photo at Chabad Lubavitch in Abuja, Nigeria on 28 July, 2021, after Leibman, Rochman and Benaym were released from detention. (Courtesy)
July 29, 2021, 12:03 am
Israeli filmmakers leave Nigeria after nearly 3 weeks in prison
Trio en route to Israel via Turkey and expected to land Thursday morning after being held for suspected contacts with separatists
By Lazar Berman
Zionist activist Rudy Rochman pitches his project, 'We Were Never Lost.' (Screenshot)
July 16, 2021, 6:46 pm
Israeli filmmakers to spend second Shabbat in Nigerian jail
Still without legal representation and not charged with any crime, trio receiving support from Chabad, embassies
By Lazar Berman
Illustrative: Participants singing and clapping during an event in Umuahia, Nigeria, May 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Lekan Oyekanmi)
July 14, 2021, 2:30 pm
They gave a Torah: Families of Israelis held in Nigeria deny separatist support
Relatives of filmmakers detained while filming documentary say gifting of Torah scroll to local community has been ‘twisted’ by local political actors to imply political backing
By Michael Bachner, Jacob Magid and Lazar Berman
Zionist activist Rudy Rochman pitches his project, 'We Were Never Lost.' (Screenshot)
July 13, 2021, 1:20 pm
Israeli filmmakers arrested in Nigeria over alleged contact with separatists
Rudy Rochman and two other Israelis were in separatist Biafran region shooting documentary about Igbo Jews
By Lazar Berman
In this Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 file photo, Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu attends a court hearing at the Federal High court in Abuja, Nigeria. (AP Photo/ File)
October 22, 2018, 6:03 am
Nigerian separatist leader admits he’s in Israel, says owes life to Jewish state
Pro-Biafran chief Nnamdi Kanu, who faces treason charges, gives credit to Mossad, but does not detail assistance; vows to return home and ‘bring hell with me’
By AFP
Osita Ebiem
December 27, 2017, 3:54 pm
Osita Ebiem
The Igbo of Nigeria stand with Israel
Yes, a whopping majority of UN member states voted against the US Embassy move, but that doesn’t make them right
Igbo mother and child. (photo credit: Shai Afsai/Times of Israel)
August 11, 2017, 5:08 pm
Messianic Jews to Nigerians: You’re not ‘real’ Jews
Religious group from Arizona claims DNA testing proves that Igbo tribe are not genetically Jewish, drawing ire
By Melanie Lidman
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) supporters and members of the Yahveh Yashua Synagogue (Yisraelities Biafra Region) celebrate Shabbat in Umuahia, on May 27, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / MARCO LONGARI
May 28, 2017, 11:37 pm
Biafran Jews mark 50 years since failed bid for independence
The secessionist state existed from 1967 to 1970, and plunged Nigeria into a bloody civil war that cost over a million lives
By ToI Staff and AFP
Igbo mother and child. (photo credit: Shai Afsai/Times of Israel)
April 30, 2013, 6:10 pm
Hanging Haman with the Igbo Jews of Abuja
Why are members of Nigeria’s third-largest ethnic group, numbering 35 million, turning to Judaism?
By Shai Afsai
From the WebJuly 14, 2012, 9:55 pm
Nigeria’s black Jews re-discovered
Ynet: New documentary takes a look at the Igbos, one of the most unique Jewish communities in the world
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