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In secret mission, 17 Yemeni Jews escape civil war for new life in Israel
[WASHINGTONPOST] In a secret mission involving an assortment of local tribes and a mystery African nation, 17 Jews from Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... escaped their country’s deadly civil war and landed in Israel early Monday morning. Representatives of the Jewish Agency for Israel, a quasi-governmental organization that assists in Jewish immigration, said the group included 12 Jews from the town of Raydah in northern Yemen and a family of five from the capital, Sanaa. They will join close to 200 Jews who have been brought to Israel secretly over the past few years, as well as a much larger community of Jews with Yemeni origins who came to Israel more than 60 years ago. Professor Uzi Rabi, an expert on Yemeni Jews at Tel Aviv university who assisted in bringing the latest group of Jews to Israel, said that only about 40 to 50 members of the community now remain in Yemen. Most of them live in a specially guarded compound where the foreign embassies are located. They are not interested in leaving their homeland, he said. Posted by: Fred 2016-03-22 |
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