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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

Libyan Jews

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at joint statement with Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides on September 3, 2023 in Cyprus (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
September 5, 2023, 1:39 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 5: PM talks pipelines in Cyprus; no deal on judicial overhaul
Knesset correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn discusses latest compromise efforts, plus PM’s trip to Cyprus; Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani looks at Libyan Jewish perspective
By ToI Staff
Libyan Minister of Media, Culture and Antiquities Omar Al-Gawairi, (left) with Israeli Communications Minister Ayoub Kara, (center) and the Chairman of the Union of Libyan Jews, Raphael Luzon, (right) in Rhodes, Greece, on June 30, 2017. (Ayoub Kara/Facebook - used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 28, 2023, 8:02 am
Peace with Libya is doubtful, but contact, aided by local Jews, started years ago
Raphael Luzon claims he initiated the first bilateral meeting that led to the top-level meeting in Rome last week, which Tripoli now disavows
By Gianluca Pacchiani
The abandoned Jewish synagogue, known as Dar Bishi, in the Old City of Tripoli, Libya's capital, April 12, 2015. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP via Getty Images)
December 8, 2022, 8:11 am
Libyan Jews whose graves were bulldozed during Gaddafi era remembered in Rome
Names of 1,800 deceased memorialized on series of marble plaques in Italian Jewish cemetery after former North African dictator destroyed nearly all Jewish grave sites
By David I. Klein
Libyan women craft traditional filigree jewellery at a workshop in the capital Tripoli, June 8, 2022. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP)
July 9, 2022, 8:53 pm
Libya sees rebirth of traditional jewelry craft once taught by Jewish artisans
People of all ages come to train at Tripoli schools in art of filigree, which involves the use of beads, threads, and precious materials to create detailed designs
By Rim Taher
Libyan militia commander Gen. Khalifa Haftar in Moscow, Russia, August 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)
November 8, 2021, 9:12 am
Son of Libyan warlord reported to visit Israel, offer ties in return for backing
Saddam Haftar said to carry message from his father requesting ‘military and diplomatic’ assistance in return for a pledge to normalize relations with the Jewish state
By ToI Staff
David Gerbi speaks about Libya in Johannesburg, South Africa, on March 15, 2011. (The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images/via JTA)
October 14, 2021, 10:59 pm
Libya’s Jewish graveyards were destroyed. They are being rebuilt online
David Gerbi left with the rest of his native country’s Jews many years ago. Horrified to see the community cemeteries desecrated on a return visit, he’s created a virtual memorial
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A picture shows the abandoned Dar Bishi synagogue in the Libyan capital Tripoli on September 28, 2011. (Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
April 16, 2021, 10:31 am
Ancient Libyan synagogue being converted into Islamic center, Jewish group says
Sla Dar Bishi in Tripoli is now in the hands of local militias amid the chaotic civil war; World Organization of Jews in Libya hopes it will be restored one day
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Messauda Fadlun, seen in old photos, was living in Libya in 1938 when it was an Italian colony and under the racist laws targeting the Jewish community. (Courtesy of Ariel Finzi/ via JTA)
February 5, 2021, 12:34 pm
After giving Holocaust survivor pension, Italy wants her husband to pay it back
Italian government tells the 98-year-old husband of now-deceased Messauda Fadlun to return 76,000 euros paid to her, because she had mixed Italian-Libyan citizenship during WWII
By Simone Somekh
Forces loyal to Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) gesture on April 18, 2019, after taking control of the area of al-Aziziyah, located some 40 kilometers south of the Libyan capital Tripoli, following fierce clashes with forces loyal to strongman Khalifa Haftar (Mahmud TURKIA / AFP)
June 12, 2020, 8:07 pm
In interview with Israeli paper, top Libyan rebel calls for Israel’s support
Abd al-Salam al-Badri, deputy PM in eastern-based government, rails against Turkish efforts to claim natural gas resources in Mediterranean and urges Israel to oppose them
By ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers stand below a monument at a ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, as Israel marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 11, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 11, 2019, 8:19 am
Yad Vashem changes Holocaust memorial prayers to include North African victims
Prayer for the perished said to be updated on museum’s website following query from 12th grader; it now refers to ‘Diaspora’ rather than ‘European Diaspora’
By ToI Staff
Jewish women light candles at the Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia. (Larry Luxner/ Times of Israel)
June 5, 2018, 5:20 am
From other end of world, group races to preserve Middle East’s Jewish heritage
Since 2010, Boston-based Diarna has used 3-D mapping, traditional scholarship and oral interviews to document more than 2,500 locations of Jewish sites in Mideast and North Africa
By Larry Luxner
Tripoli's Corinthia Hotel appears behind the abandoned Dar Bishi synagogue in the Libyan capital on September 28, 2011. ( JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
March 28, 2018, 1:50 am
US to allow import of some Jewish-Libyan artifacts despite new restrictions
Move prevents Libya from claiming objects, such as antique Torah scrolls, tombstones and books, taken from Libyan Jews who were forced out the country
By Josefin Dolsten
The abandoned Dar Bishi synagogue in Tripoli on September 28, 2011. ( JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)
February 23, 2018, 5:06 am
US accused of allowing Libya to keep seized Jewish property
Agreement meant to protect Libya’s heritage actually legitimizes Tripoli’s confiscation of objects belonging to exiled Jews, activists say
By Josefin Dolsten
A hotel can be seen behind the abandoned Dar Bishi synagogue in Tripoli, Libya, September 28, 2011. (Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)
July 27, 2017, 8:39 pm
Jews from Libya are worried about the fate of the country’s Jewish artifacts
A memorandum under consideration by the State Department would prohibit ritual objects being brought from the war-torn regime into the US
By Josefin Dolsten
The Baghdadis, a Jewish family in Aleppo, Syria, around 1940. In Aleppo, and in other cities and towns across north Africa and the Middle East, some 850,000 Jews were pushed out of their homes beginning in the mid-20th century. (Courtesy of Asher Ron)
November 30, 2015, 11:56 am
Israel marks exodus of Jews from Arab countries
850,000 Jews fled from Mideast countries and Iran in 1930s-50s; Shas’s Deri says next banknotes should feature eastern writers
By ToI Staff
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