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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 469

Mizrahi Jews

Former Israeli Politician David Levy at a conference of the Israeli Television News Company in the Jerusalem International Convention Center (ICC) on September 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 3, 2024, 4:02 am
‘Trailblazer’ David Levy remembered for forging space for Mizrahi voices in politics
Former foreign minister, who died Sunday at 86, praised by politicians on both right and left for fighting on behalf of underserved communities from Middle East and North Africa
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir (L) with fellow members of the Likud party David Levy (C) and Ariel Sharon at a Likud party meeting in 1986. (Moshe Shai/ FLASH90)
June 2, 2024, 8:09 pm
David Levy, who mainstreamed Mizrahi involvement in politics, dies at 86
Likud politician was for decades Israel’s leading Mizrahi political figure, rising to deputy PM and three-time foreign minister, but faded after primary loss to Netanyahu in 1993
By Charlie Summers
Owner and proprietor Tzvi David makes baba qadrasi at Konditorei David, March 2024. (Courtesy)
March 23, 2024, 8:14 am
Heavenly Purim treats at this Iraqi Jewish confectionery are a window into a bygone era
Customers line up in Petah Tikva for an ancient nougat named for manna and a trip back in time, as they fear 70-year-old Konditorei David may too soon be a thing of the past
By Eliyahu Freedman
Israeli Black Panthers founder Charlie Biton as a Knesset member for the mostly Arab left-wing Hadash Party on December 22, 1988. (Ayalon Maggi/GPO)
February 25, 2024, 1:52 pm
Charlie Biton, Black Panther founder who fought for Mizrahi equality, dies at 76
With others from his working-class Jerusalem neighborhood, the activist and Knesset member shook up a country that had for years discriminated against non-European Jews
By Charlie Summers
Interior of the Meir Tweig Synagogue in Baghdad, Iraq, on January 7, 2022. (Sabah ARAR / AFP)
February 21, 2024, 1:38 am
Search this new list of Jewish family names from across the Middle East
Former Israeli ambassador Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch might be Ashkenazi himself, but his meticulous lists of names from ancient Cairo to Baghdad have earned him the title of ‘genius’
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli (center, white shirt) excavates the synagogue in Tamanart, Morocco, in November 2021 with her daughter Shoham (left), student Adi Gura, and Mona Naji-Goeury, daughter of researchers Salima Naji and David Goeury. (Courtesy Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli/Yuval Yekutieli)
May 1, 2023, 4:24 pm
Abraham Accords allow Israelis to excavate two huge ‘genizas’ found in rural Morocco
Normalization lets Israeli researchers formalize ties with Moroccan experts to investigate remnants of Jewish life – with aid of Israelis who once lived in those abandoned villages
By Melanie Lidman
Students at the Horev girls high school in Jerusalem in a Purim skit mocking Mizrahi Jews. (Screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 13, 2023, 8:06 pm
Religious students face backlash for Purim skit mocking Mizrahi Jews
Clip from Ulpanat Horev in Jerusalem goes viral online; Shas chief Aryeh Deri labels it ‘wretched and outrageous racism’; school apologizes, education minister calls for probe
By ToI Staff
Zohar Argov seen in 1981. (IDF Archive)
November 14, 2022, 5:07 am
Unfit to be ‘the king’: How singer Zohar Argov’s legacy continues to be whitewashed
35 years after his death in a jail cell, the music of the legendary Mizrahi singer and convicted rapist is more popular than it was in his lifetime – even in the post-#MeToo era
By Amy Spiro
Then-defense minister Avigdor Liberman (left) and then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, on October 23, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
October 6, 2022, 7:38 pm
Yisrael Beytenu pans own digest calling Likud ‘a party for Jews from Arab nations’
Text published in Russian-language bulletin lamented that rival party’s leaders ‘have the cultural and psychological norms of those ethnicities’
By ToI Staff
An estimated 400,000 Israelis demonstrate in the center of Tel Aviv to protest against rising housing prices and social inequalities in the Jewish state, September 3, 2011. (Jack Guez/AFP)
September 10, 2022, 11:35 am
Inequality between Israel’s Mizrahi, Ashkenazi Jews to be measured in new statistics
New policy will make it possible to learn far more than is currently known about gaps in wealth, education and other factors between Jews of different ethnicities
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Left: The book cover of 'Titan of Tehran.' Right: Habib Elghanian, a prominent leader of Iran's Jewish community, seen during his trial in Iran that led to his 1979 execution. (Collage by Grace Yagel/JTA)
January 6, 2022, 3:11 am
An Iranian Jewish leader was executed in 1979. His granddaughter tells his story
In ‘Titan of Tehran,’ Shahrzad Elghanayan writes about her grandfather, a philanthropist who gave his life rather than abandon his community during the Islamic Revolution
By Howard Lovy
Jews in Tunisia, 1880 (public domain)
December 1, 2021, 4:19 am
Ignored by the UN, Mizrahi Jews survived pogroms and expulsions, too
Persecution of Middle Eastern Jewry ‘has been denied for a lengthy period,’ according to historians advocating for ‘more inclusive’ Jewish memory
By Matt Lebovic
Likud lawmaker Miri Regev tours Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market on February 28, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 16, 2021, 2:42 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 16 – Could Miri Regev be Israel’s Barack Obama?
Political correspondent Tal Schneider fills us in on why the Likud lawmaker is making headlines; senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur assesses how Israelis view Afghanistan’s collapse
By ToI Staff
A Jewish wedding in Baghdad, date unknown. (courtesy/JIMENA)
April 23, 2021, 8:49 pm
Is your name on this list? Your Jewish roots may be in Cairo, Baghdad or nearby
Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch unveils a painstaking compilation of late 19th-century men who managed to evade Ottoman conscription, among the few available records of bygone communities
By Asaf Shalev
Women celebrate Rosh Chodesh el Banat in Jerusalem, December 2019. (Aliza Lavie/ via JTA)
December 11, 2020, 1:16 pm
Israelis want to bring back North African Jewry’s feminist Hanukkah tradition
Rosh Chodesh el Benat, or ‘head of the month of daughters,’ falls on the 1st day of the Hebrew month of Tevet and celebrates daughters with lavish parties and gifts
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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