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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 620

Sudanese Jews

Amin Israil (bottom), the grandson of an Iraqi Jew who settled in Sudan and whose family later converted to Islam, his daughter Salma (L), and Yosar Basha (R), another Sudanese woman descended of Jewish origins, pose for a photo together at Israil's home during an interview with AFP in Wad Madani, the capital of Sudan's east-central al-Jazirah state, on February 11, 2021. - The Jewish community in Sudan was one of the smallest in the Middle East, but it, like those of other Arab states, dwindled in the latter half of the 20th century, as tensions surrounding the 1948 creation of Israel permeated the region. Like elsewhere in the Arab world, Sudanese Jews bore the brunt of growing anti-Israel sentiment amid conflict with the Jewish state. Decades later, their descendants see a recent rapprochement between their country and Israel as an opportunity to connect with their origins. (Photo by Ebrahim HAMID / AFP)
April 7, 2021, 2:05 pm
With normalization, Sudanese who descended from Jews hope to connect with Israel
Jewish community is long gone, but some citizens hope rapprochement will be sealed with approval of transitional legislature so they can get back in touch with their Jewish roots
By MENNA ZAKI
A boy waves on the back of a cattle truck in Khartoum, Sudan, November 2020. (Ziv Genesove)
December 3, 2020, 7:01 am
In Khartoum, Sudanese tell ToI reporter: Prosperity better than hungry idealism
Visiting the capital weeks after normalization deal was announced, an Israeli journalist finds pragmatism — and a family with Jewish roots who claim anti-Semitism sucked them dry
By Ziv Genesove
Jewish children dressed up to celebrate the Purim holiday in Sudan, 1950. (Courtesy Tales of Jewish Khartoum)
October 31, 2020, 3:35 pm
Exiled Jews would ‘love’ to see Sudan again, if given chance via new Israel ties
UK-based Tales of Jewish Sudan website founder Daisy Abboudi talks about tiny community’s rich but short history, in which all her grandparents played a part
By Yaakov Schwartz
Sudanese demonstrate in support of their people in Sudan, in south Tel Aviv, on April 13, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 23, 2020, 6:31 am
‘Yes, yes, yes’: Why peace with Khartoum would be true paradigm shift for Israel
The big, poor African state and the small, rich Gulf monarchies couldn’t be more different; for a start, unlike Bahrain and the UAE, Sudan actually went to war against Israel
By Raphael Ahren
Nasr-Eddin Mofarah, Sudan's new minister for religious affairs, speaks with Saudi broadcaster Al Arabiya on September 6, 2019. (Screen capture: MEMRI)
September 8, 2019, 11:35 pm
After ouster of longtime dictator, Sudan calls on Jewish emigres to return
New minister for religious affairs says country is ‘pluralistic in its thought’ and Jews can come back ‘through their right of citizenship and nationality’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
In this undated handout photo, provided by Tales of Jewish Sudan, Lily Ben-David, far left, along with mother and aunt (back row) attend a neighbor's wedding in Khartoum. (Courtesy of Lily Ben-David, Tales of Jewish Sudan, via AP)
January 26, 2017, 9:21 am
Sudanese Jews recall long-lost world with nostalgia
The close-knit Jewish community of 1,000, the smallest in the Middle East, was forced to flee the anti-Israel blowback of the 1950s and 1960s
By ISMA'IL KUSHKUSH
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