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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 569

North Africa

A scene from 'Rogue Heroes,' a TV series about the origin of Britain’s elite Special Air Service, which premiered November 13, 2022, on Epix. (Screenshot: YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 17, 2022, 8:41 pm
TV series ‘Rogue Heroes’ explores chaotic, desert-based Nazi-busting WWII unit
Britain’s elite Special Air Service was created by misfits who eschewed traditional military hierarchy and conducted daring attacks on Nazi convoys in North Africa
By Mark Kennedy
Infantrymen of the British Eighth Army advance through a gap in Nazi minefield in front of the Mareth Line in Tunisia on March 25, 1943. (AP Photo/British Official Photo)
November 17, 2022, 8:41 pm
Eighty years later, the little known story of the Nazi occupation of Tunisia
Between November 1942 to May 1943, the SS imprisoned 5,000 Jewish men in roughly 40 forced labor and detention camps on the front lines and in cities like Tunis
By Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Mabrouk — whose name is an Arabic-language greeting that is said to congratulate someone on an achievement — looks nothing like the typical couscous eateries that dot Paris. (Cnaan Liphshiz/ JTA)
May 25, 2022, 10:01 pm
In Paris, two friends draw crowds with their Jewish-Tunisian grandparents’ couscous
Alexandre David and Alexis Memmi serve family recipes without pretense at Mabrouk, a kosher-style eatery in the city center, and their diverse clientele is eating it up
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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
Chris Silver, a professor of Jewish History at McGill University, collects records from around the world for the first archive of North African Jewish music, currently housed in his apartment in Montreal. (Courtesy of Chris Silver/via JTA)
March 23, 2021, 3:32 am
Historian turns obsessive 78s collector to preserve North African Jewish music
In the first archive of its kind, Prof. Chris Silver possesses about 500 albums recorded by Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian Jewish vocalists and instrumentalists
By Asaf Shalev
British infantrymen advance through the battlefield at El-Alamein in October 1942. (Sgt. Len Chetwyn/No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit/Wikimedia)
March 20, 2021, 4:04 am
New book deciphers forgotten intel war that kept the Nazis from the Holy Land
American-Israeli author Gershom Gorenberg’s deeply researched tome serves as a corrective, bringing long-overlooked history of the North Africa campaign in World War II to the fore
By Judah Ari Gross
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
Israeli singer and songwriter Riff Cohen. (CC-SA-3.0/ Yanai Yechiel)
June 7, 2020, 4:31 am
Locked down? Open up to… eclectic singer-songwriter Riff Cohen
With North African heritage and a Tel Aviv upbringing, this vocalist doesn’t follow the typical female popstar formula. Check out her groovy joie de vivre
By Joy Bernard
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
Regis Talar, Enrico Macias and Philippe Clair share a laugh. (Courtesy Yves Azeroual)
July 5, 2019, 12:44 am
Rags to riches tale of five of France’s top talents makes for magnificent film
‘Les Magnifiques’ depicts lives of quintet of North African Jews who fled their countries in the ’50s and ’60s before finding huge success in the French entertainment industry
By Rich Tenorio
Algerians hold a national flag as they celebrate on an Algiers street on March 11, 2019, after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced his withdrawal from a bid for another term in office. (RYAD KRAMDI / AFP)
March 11, 2019, 11:47 pm
Algerian President Bouteflika drops bid for fifth term following mass protests
Returning home from Swiss hospital, authoritarian leader vows to hand over presidential reins to a successor who will be ‘freely chosen by the Algerian people’
By AFP
Chef Einat Admony of Kish-Kash. (Arron Brown)
June 17, 2018, 10:11 pm
Couscous lovers rejoice: Israeli chef unveils homey taste of North Africa in NYC
After nearly two years of preparation, Einat Admony unveils Kish-Kash, a cozy kitchen focused on the labor — and love — of the homemade Moroccan staple
By Michelle Divon
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
A French officer gives a salute before a grave during a ceremony to mark 75 years since the pivotal WWII battle in the town of El Alamein, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Alexandria, during a visit by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, on October 21, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / KHALED DESOUKI)
October 21, 2017, 6:33 pm
Ceremony marks 75 years since key WWII Battle of El Alamein
Commonwealth nations in 1942 halted the advance of Nazi Germany in an Egyptian village, paving the way for full Allied victory in North Africa
By AFP
Illustrative: Tunisian women celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Arab Spring in Tunis, Tunisia, on January 14, 2016. (AP/Riadh Dridi)
September 16, 2017, 7:43 am
Tunisia scraps ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims
Human rights groups had campaigned to abolish the 1973 law, saying it undermined the fundamental human right to choose a spouse
By AFP
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