Yemenite jews

Israel marks national day of commemoration for Yemenite Jewish aliyah

Education Ministry officials promised that, in addition to creating educational resources, the ministry is “trying to instill in teachers sensitivity to the different ethnic backgrounds."

 Jews from Yemen are seen heading to Israel during Operation Magic Carpet.
DANCER ADVA YERMIYAHU will be accompanied by flamenco guitarist Manuel Cazas.

Ofra Haza’s melodies meet Andalusian flamenco in new Jerusalem premiere

A Yemenite synagogue in central Israel was desecrated, and many of the institute's prayer books were shredded, worshippers discovered just before Shabbat came in last week.

Yemenite synagogue in central Israel ransacked, Bibles ripped apart

Yemeni Jews demonstrate outside the Cabinet office in Sanaa, March 2009

One of Yemen's last Jewish women makes aliyah to Israel - report


Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs

Though the wave of violence that began last September has calmed down, the level of apprehension of residents and visitors has not really dropped, especially in the city center.

Sana’a, Yemen

Alleged kidnapping of Yemenite children opens Pandora’s box in Knesset

Activists allege that an unknown number of children born to immigrant Jews from Yemen in the 1950s were “stolen” or taken for adoption by childless Ashkenazi Jews and others.

Likud MK Nava Boker

Terra Incognita: The sickening contempt for missing Jewish Yemenite children

In 2016 it’s time to apologize for all this. The denial, excuses and attacks on people today for promoting “hysteria” and “conspiracies” are grotesque.

Immigrants from Yemen in a tent encampment in 1949.

Grapevine: Good Tuesday

Tuesday is a favorite day for weddings and for other social events, as evidenced below.

YAAKOV (KUBA) WASILEWICZ

Four MKs reveal family members, friends among missing in Yemenite Children Affair

"If my siblings are still alive, it is important to me to meet them"

JEWISH IMMIGRANTS from Yemen in 1950 after their arrival to Israel

Victims of anti-Semitism remembered by the Jewish Agency

Moshe Yaish Nahari, a 35-year-old father of nine, was gunned down while buying food for Shabbat in Yemen in 2008. His family are all now reunited in Israel, living in Bnei Brak.

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky kindles a memorial flame together with two members of the Nahari family

Grapevine: Avoiding holiday congestion

JERUSALEM-BASED artist Ruth Schreiber will open her exhibition Beyond Rubies.

Art by Ruth Schreiber

Yemen’s struggle between Saudi bombs and Western neglect

At first, the crisis in Yemen followed the script of a typical “Arab Spring” revolt.

Shi'ite Muslim rebels in Sanaa, Yemen, March 26, 2013

Former PA diplomat accuses Abbas of helping with aliya of Yemenite Jews

Abdel Rahim noted in his letter that he had always opposed Abbas’s contacts with “Zionist figures.”

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks with journalists at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah

Jerusalem Post Editorial:Yemenite story

The end of the Jewish community in Yemen can be placed in the context of a larger trend, the increasing intolerance within the Arab-Muslim world for minorities.

Final group of Yemenite Jewish immigrants arrives in Israel