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La Falfula Groove Iraqi. From left to right: David Regev-Zaarur, Itshak Zagzag, Yohani Perez, Alan Alaev, Gavriel Zikhron and Ben Machloof. (Courtesy)
February 21, 2024, 4:05 pm
Post-Oct. 7, Israeli band channeling 1930s Baghdad gets a boost from Iraqi musicians
Led by the great-grandson of a foremost Iraqi musician of his era, La Falfula Groove Iraqi personifies the spirit of a bygone age while maintaining virtual ties with the Arab world
By Gavriel Fiske
A view of a relief in Hebrew at the Prophet Nahum synagogue (dating in its present form to the year 1796), in Iraq's northern town of al-Qosh, some 50 kilometres north of Mosul, February 3, 2022. (Ismael ADNAN / AFP)
March 3, 2022, 9:20 am
Ancient heritage of Iraq’s last few Jews at risk as synagogues fall into ruin
Rare international efforts to save remnants are not enough to preserve what is left of a once-thriving Jewish community
By Salam Faraj
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on August 18, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 25, 2021, 11:05 pm
Bennett on Iraqis’ call for normalization: ‘Israel extends its hand in peace’
PM praises gathering of hundreds of Sunni and Shiite notables, says ‘recognition of the historical injustice done to the Jews of Iraq is especially important’
By ToI Staff
Iraqis attend the conference of peace and reclamation organised by US think-tank Center for Peace Communications (CPC) in Arbil, the capital of northern Iraq's Kurdistan autonomous region, on September 24, 2021 (Safin HAMED / AFP)
September 25, 2021, 12:23 pm
Hundreds of Iraqi notables call to join Abraham Accords, make peace with Israel
At Erbil conference, participants also urge rebuilding ties with the country’s dispossessed Jewish diaspora; normalization remains a crime under Iraqi law
By Aaron Boxerman and Lazar Berman
Left to right: Linda Munuhin, Yair Dalal, (credit: David Blumenfeld) and Yehezkel Kojaman (credit: Liam Sharp), photos taken for the Iraqi Jewish Voices Project.
September 25, 2017, 8:59 pm
As Iraqi Jewish voices die out, a project seeks to preserve their rich history
A handful of scholars are creating a multimedia resource to give Mizrahi Jews the same platforms to tell their stories as Ashkenazim who suffered in the Holocaust
By Cathryn J. Prince
A plane filled with Iraqi Jews photographed on arrival at Lod Airport outside Tel Aviv in early 1951 (Teddy Brauner, GPO)
May 31, 2016, 2:39 pm
The expulsion that backfired: When Iraq kicked out its Jews
Bent on destroying Israel, and gripped by anti-Semitism, Baghdad ‘pauperized’ its Jews and forced them to leave for nascent Jewish state in 1951-2. It was Iraq that suffered
By Edwin Black
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