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


Controversy surrounds unconfirmed reports that Houthis rounded up Jews

The report has yet to be confirmed by any official source, leaving questions about the report’s validity.

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

Jerusalem exhibition unveils rich history of Yemenite Jewry

Bible Lands Museum show details mysterious kingdom that abandoned polytheism and adopted Jewish rituals nearly 2,000 years ago

Bible Lands Museum

War-torn Yemen demands return of Jewish treasures now in the U.S.

The demand by the Yemeni government was filed with the Cultural Property Advisory Committee, and a hearing was held on late October.

YEMENITE FAMILIES are shown in 1951 at Givat Ye’arim, a moshav just west of Jerusalem, whose initial residents arrived in Israel as part of the airlift of Jews from Yemen. (GPO)

Yemenite, Mizrahi and Balkan families protest 1950s alleged kidnappings

‘State must admit a crime was committed’

Yeminite family

The sounds of Yemen: 3 years after first album, the Haim girls are back

The show was non stop the tunes of a lost land, the stories of a strong woman who made her way to Israel from Yemen: Their great-grandmother Rachel.

A-Wa performing at Barby Tel Aviv

The lost Yemenite children and I

The word of abduction spread like wildfire throughout more than two hundred transit camps, including our camp, and reached my father, Baba.

Yemenite immigrants on a plane flying to Lod Airport from Aden on October 23, 1949

The Songs of the Mothers

A new show in Jerusalem honors the musical tradition of Yemenite Jewish female singers.

Tom Fogel (left) and Ofer Kalaf (right) listen to a recording of a Jewish woman singing in the Mughaniyyat tradition

Wings of Eagles: Israel’s multiple airlifts and sealifts

Seventy years after their launch, Israel’s multiple airlifts and sealifts of distressed Jews defy modern immigration’s increasingly troubled course.

A family of Jewish immigrants from Yemen arrives at Lod Airport on the Operation Magic Carpet airlift, November 17, 1949

South Yemen speaks

The synagogues and monuments that once belonged to the Jewish community were saved and kept by our forces. Until today, we believe in the right of the southern Jews to their land and properties.

A displaced Yemeni boy is seen at a refugee camp located between Marib and Sanaa, Yemen March 29, 2018.

It's never too late to honor a hero

"It’s not just the people we brought. It’s their descendants, and I’m glad to have been a part of it."

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