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


Yemenite Children Affair: Grave of child to be opened for first time

A DNA test will be conducted as part of attempts to uncover details on the Yemenite Children Affair.

 JEWISH AGENCY representatives meet Yemenite immigrants arriving at Lod Airport in 1949. (Wikimedia Commons)

The legacy of Azerbaijani and Yemenite Jewry - opinion

I hope that Yemenite Jews alongside with other Jewish communities across the world can work to build a strong and friendly relationship with Azerbaijan.

 LEFT TO RIGHT: Head of Georgian Jewish Community Rabbi Zamir Isayev, the writer, head of Mountain Jewish Community Milikh Yevdayev, and another member of the Azerbaijani Jewish community visit a Baku synagogue last summer.

This week in Jerusalem: Yemenite protest

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 ‘ASBESTOS VALLEY’ origins: A family of new immigrants move into one of the huts at a Ma’abara, near Tel Aviv.

Remembering Elgen Long, aviator who brought Yemenites to Israel - opinion

Elgen was the epitome of a mensch, reminding me – and us all – what we could be if only we manifested the best of us.

 DURING A 2018 visit to Israel, Elgen Long, 91, is reunited with two sisters aged over 90 who were passengers on the plane on which he was a crew member, airlifting Yemenite Jews to Israel in 1949.

Health Ministry helped Israel kidnap Yemenite children in 1950s - report

It has become an accepted narrative that upward of 1,000 babies were taken from their families and put up for adoption.

Yemenite immigrants gather for a photo at Rosh Ha’ayin, in the early years of the state.

Bible scrolls from around the world - in pictures

A photo essay captures the stories of six Torah scrolls from around the world - Yemen, Siberia, France, Germany - which all ended up in Israel.

 THE WIESLOCH Torah scroll.

On This Day: The conclusion of Operation Magic Carpet

Some 380 flights carried the olim to Israel, prompted by a pogrom in the British Colony of Aden following the 1947 UN Partition Plan.

 YEMENITE JEWS are seen on a plane traveling to Lod airport as part of Operation Magic Carpet in 1949

How the Jews who fled Arab countries in 1948 built new lives in Israel

As the new Jewish state was taking root in 1948, an estimated 850,000 Jews living in Arab countries were being expelled or fled their homes in those countries.

 JEWISH AGENCY representatives meet Yemenite immigrants arriving at Lod Airport in 1949. (Wikimedia Commons)

Almost all remaining Jews in Yemen deported - Saudi media

Similar reports have been denied as false in the past.

A family have breakfast outside their home at a Jewish community in Sanaa, Yemen

Israel still must apologize for the Yemenite Children's Affair

Although the decision to compensate the families is a commendable one, it does not go far enough in acknowledging the government’s culpability.

YEMENITE JEWS near their tents in Israel in 1949.