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David Shuker in a 2022 interview with Chanel 13 (Screnshot)
February 25, 2026, 6:09 pm
David Shuker, ‘Last Jew of Saudi Arabia,’ dies at 82
Shuker, an Israeli said to be the last survivor of the Najran Jewish community, was expelled with his community after the State of Israel was declared in 1948
By Zev Stub
Screengrabs of a video posted to social media showing prayer books strewn across the floor after a vandalism incident at the Mishkan Shalom Synagogue in Kadima-Zoran, shared November 22, 2025. (X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 22, 2025, 11:21 pm
Yemenite synagogue in central Israel vandalized, holy books ripped apart
Mishkan Shalom Synagogue decries ‘pogrom,’ community member calls it ‘terror attack’; police yet to identify motive or suspects
By Charlie Summers
Dr. Doron Yaakov, head of the Jewish Oral Traditions collection at the Academy of Hebrew Language and researcher at the Historical Dictionary Project, at the Cultural and Educational Center on March 24, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
April 15, 2025, 7:18 am
Research center works to save myriad Hebrew dialects shaped by millennia of wandering
Israel’s Academy of the Hebrew Language has been preserving a treasure trove of accents and pronunciations that are swiftly becoming lost by its own work to standardize language
By Rossella Tercatin
File: Yemeni Jewish Rabbi Yahia Yussef Mussa (C), sporting a chequered Keffiya, poses for a picture with unidentified young relatives outside his apartment in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on January 18, 2010. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)
March 8, 2024, 9:54 am
How an Arab country helped Israel rescue Yemen’s last Jews, and settle them in Cairo
In 2021, nearly 100 Yemenite Jews were evacuated from a secure compound in Sana’a amid civil war. But one of them, Salem Levi Marhabi, was forced to stay; he is still held in a Houthi prison
By Shalom Yerushalmi
An undated photo of part of the Nahum Collection of Yemenite Manuscripts, which comprises 60,000 Yemenite-Jewish manuscripts and fragments, and which the National Library of Israel said in January 2024 was set to become available to researchers and scholars. (NLI via JTA)
January 23, 2024, 10:17 pm
Major Judaica trove amassed by Yemenite Jewish butcher donated to National Library
Put together over 50 years by Yehuda Levi Nahum, collection includes translated Maimonides manuscripts and writings by key Yemenite Jewish writers
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
The grave of Yosef Melamed, at the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery, Tel Aviv. (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
September 25, 2022, 12:56 pm
Fate of Yemenite baby determined after DNA from exhumed body matches relatives’
Forensic scientists confirm grave belongs to Yosef Melamed, whose remains were the first of 9 due to be tested as part of probe into Yemenite children affair
By ToI Staff
A damaged Jewish grave is seen at the Jewish cemetery in the city of Aden in southern Yemen. (Twitter/Kan News)
August 22, 2022, 9:22 pm
Yemen restores Jewish cemetery, remainder of a once booming, now long-gone community
Restoration of the 160-year-old burial ground that had been neglected for years began with civil organizations, before being picked up by government
By ToI Staff
Forensic teams exhumes the grave of Yosef Melamed at the Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery on July 27, 2022 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 9, 2022, 6:52 pm
Experts said to identify DNA from remains exhumed in state kidnapping probe
Genetic profile successfully reconstructed for first time in Yemenite Children Affair; results to be compared with Yosef Melamed’s relatives to see if exhumed remains belong to him
By ToI Staff
Yaish Giat, a Yemen-born Mori and spice shop owner, will serve as the torchbearer for Israel's 73rd Independence Day Ceremony. (Courtesy)
April 6, 2021, 12:58 pm
Yemenite spice shop owner, 102, oldest ever to light Independence Day torch
Spiritual mentor Yaish Giat will wish that ‘our nation love one another, that people will respect one another’
By ToI Staff
File: New immigrants from Yemen arrive in Israel on February 19, 2009 (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
March 30, 2021, 5:24 pm
As 13 Yemeni Jews leave pro-Iran region for Cairo, community of 50,000 down to 6
Family confirmed to depart for Egypt in deal with Houthis; country’s remaining half-dozen Jews live in areas controlled by Iranian-backed militias but seem to want to stay
By Aaron Boxerman
Illustrative. Yemenite Jews arriving at Ben Gurion Airport in 2012. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90/File)
March 29, 2021, 4:07 pm
Some of Yemen’s last remaining Jews said expelled by Iran-backed Houthis
13 members of three families reportedly transferred to another country, with efforts underway to bring them to Israel; exit said part of deal to free imprisoned Jewish man
By ToI Staff
ILLUSTRATIVE -- A man walks through a cemetery in Jerusalem (Nati Shohat /Flash90)
October 13, 2020, 8:41 am
Man said to be Israel’s oldest dies at 117
Shlomo Sulayman, who his family says was born in 1903, immigrated from Yemen; grandson says pandemic-caused isolation and not going to synagogue damaged his health
By Marcy Oster
A Jewish man originally from Yemen embraces a family member from whom he had been separated for 15 years, Abu Dhabi, UAE, August 2020. (Twitter)
August 9, 2020, 1:33 pm
UAE helps reunite Yemenite Jewish family that was separated for 15 years
‘My soul felt reborn,’ one relative says at Abu Dhabi airport ceremony; tweeting about reunion, Emirati FM Abdullah bin Zayed hails his country as ‘homeland of coexistence’
By Raphael Ahren
A funerary stele of an ancient Yemenite Jew is inscribed with his name, Abd. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
March 7, 2020, 9:54 am
Prophets, priests, Jewish kings: Ancient Yemen made vivid in Jerusalem exhibit
Bible Lands Museum tells the story of Jews in south Arabia, where they once ruled, made war, traded spice with Rome and longed for the Holy Land
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Illustrative: Children being airlifted from Yemen in Operation Magic Carpet, in front of an Alaskan Airlines plane. (Courtesy AJM)
December 24, 2019, 1:30 pm
High Court says lawsuit on disappeared Yemenite children should be heard
Families suing the state for responsibility over 11 kids who vanished after arriving in the country in 1950s; justices cite ‘worrying concerns about pattern of action’
By ToI Staff
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