Yemenite Jews

The three sisters of A-WA performed for NPR's Tiny Desk Concert this week (Courtesy A-WA Facebook page)

September 6, 2019, 8:14 am

Israeli trio A-WA performs for NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk Concert’

The three Tagel sisters sing their hip-hip infused Yemenite tunes for the Washington, DC studio

By Jessica Steinberg

As darkness falls, a view from a balcony at the scene unfolding in 'View Field,' a new Clipa Theater performance on June 11, 2019, for the 2019 Israel Festival (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

June 12, 2019, 4:43 pm

Back-to-back Israel Festival events set up shop at Old City walls

A performance at a busy Jerusalem crossroads and a night in honor of a renowned Yemenite rabbi and poet

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli author Ayelet Tsabari. (Collage by Alma; Tsabari photo: Jonathan Bloom)

February 24, 2019, 1:56 am

Israeli writer Ayelet Tsabari on being a literal, literary wandering Jew

The author’s upcoming memoir, which will be published in English, charts her own struggles and those of Mizrahi Jews in Israel

By Emily Burack

Illustrative: Children being airlifted from Yemen in Operation Magic Carpet, in front of an Alaskan Airlines plane. (Courtesy AJM)

From the WebFebruary 20, 2019, 6:49 pm

The disappeared children of Israel

A New York Times photo essay looks at the new generation of Yemenite Israelis demanding answers for families who say their children were abducted by the state in the 1950s

The Israeli flag is mounted on a building owned by Ateret Cohanim in the Batan al-Hawa neigbhorhood of Silwan, East Jerusalem, July 31, 2018. (Sue Surkes)

November 22, 2018, 5:51 pm

High Court rejects petition against evacuation of 700 East Jerusalem residents

Justices uphold 2002 decision to give site of former Yemenite Jewish village to right-wing Jewish group, but call on state to compensate Palestinians living in homes

By TOI staff and Sue Surkes

October 5, 2018, 9:47 am

Yemenite families of disappeared children file class-action lawsuit

Suit seeks to force the state to accept responsibility for at least 69 children who disappeared from state institutions in the 1950s

By TOI staff

View of the classified documents related to the Yemenite Children Affair, at the Israel State Archives offices in Jerusalem, December 22, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

August 12, 2018, 4:46 pm

State told to release 300,000 unpublished files on missing Yemenite children

Justice Minister Shaked orders police documents be produced; calls on two health and welfare organizations to publish any material they have

By Stuart Winer and TOI staff

From left: Environment and Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze'ev Elkin, Culture Minister Miri Regev, Ateret Cohanim Chairman Matti Dan, Likud MK Nurit Koren and Jeruslam mayoral candidate Moshe Leon sign the visitors' book at the former Yemenite synagogue acquired by the right-wing Ateret Cohanim organization in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, August 1, 2018. (Sue Surkes)

August 1, 2018, 10:24 pm

Jewish Yemeni heritage center launched in heart of Arab East Jerusalem

Former US governor Mike Huckabee joins ministers at cornerstone ceremony for $3 million project in former Silwan synagogue

By Sue Surkes

Yemen Blues founder Ravid Kahalani has recently moved to New York City. (Courtesy)

July 18, 2018, 3:53 am

Israeli Jew and Yemenite Muslim: A musical match that could only be made in NY

Yemen Blues founder Ravid Kahalani to perform his Arabic and African-infused music with backing from oud player Ahmed Alshaiba at the Brooklyn Bowl on August 7

By Michelle Divon

Tom Fogel (left) and Ofer Callaf rehearsing together on their show (Courtesy Tom Fogel)

July 4, 2018, 4:24 am

Two grandsons offer a musical glimpse of their ancestral Yemenite history

Ofer Callaf and Tom Fogel bring the songs of their Israeli immigrant grandmothers to Jerusalem’s Confederation House for a one-night show on July 5

By Jessica Steinberg

(Photos from this collection by Avraham Hermes and Rahamim Ben Zur; All images courtesy of Danny Goldsmith and Aden Jewish Heritage Museum)

December 6, 2017, 11:27 am

Murder, looting, burning: Remembering the Aden riots of 1947

87 Jews died in a three-day bloodbath triggered by the UN Partition vote, and carried out under the noses of British colonial rulers

By Dani Goldsmith and Sarah Ansbacher

Ret. Cpt. Elgen Long and Shahar Azani, Executive Director StandWithUs, Northeast Region. Azani's grandparents and father were among those airlifted out of Yemen during Operation Magic Carpet. (Cathryn J. Prince/Times of Israel)

September 15, 2017, 8:33 pm

Final crewman from Operation Magic Carpet recounts heroic life-saving mission

Honored by Jewish orgs in NY this week, Ret. Cpt. Elgen M. Long, 91, flew in a two-year sortie that brought 50,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel between 1948 and 1950

By Cathryn J. Prince

The nursery at the Rosh Ha'ayin refugee camp housing Yemenite Jewish immigrants (Brauner Teddy/GPO)

June 16, 2017, 6:28 am

When Israeli doctors allegedly tested Yemenites for ‘Negro blood’

Lawmakers reexamine 20-year-old testimonies alleging medical experiments on new immigrants in 1950s, but make no demand for further action

By Marissa Newman

In this photo taken on April 8, 2009, Jewish Yemeni boys sit behind the driver of a minibus as they travel back to the town of Raydah, after a morning of Hebrew classes in the nearby village of Kharif, Yemen photo credit: AP/Hamza Hendawi

April 16, 2017, 8:50 pm

Yemen minister says fate of country’s last 50 Jews unknown

Moammer al-Iryani says Houthi rebels, who control capital Sana’a, are engaged in ethnic cleansing which includes seeking to rid Yemen of all Jews

By TOI staff

January 31, 2017, 12:48 pm

Chana Gable Selmon

Yemenites in Brooklyn

In the aftermath of 9/11, every foreign national was suspect — until you sat together for a cup of tea