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In 1948, there were over 5,000 Jews in Afghanistan. Afghanistan was the only Muslim country which allowed Jewish emigrants to keep their citizenship. Most Afghan Jews moved to Israel or the United States. [18] Afghan Jews left the country en masse in the 1960s. Their resettlement in New York and Tel Aviv was motivated by their search for a ...
Despite that most Jews had already departed from the country by this time, with the majority settling down in Israel, Simintov did not permanently relocate; he briefly lived in Turkmenistan but returned to Kabul in 1998, by which time the Taliban had officially established the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
The Kabul synagogue, known by locals as the Jewish Mosque, [1] [2] is an abandoned Jewish congregation and synagogue in Kabul, Afghanistan.The synagogue was completed in 1966, when Afghanistan's Jewish population numbered in the thousands.
As Afghanistan is a landlocked country located between Central Asia and South Asia, the Jews who lived in Afghanistan are sometimes considered to be the same as Bukharan Jews, though some Jews from Afghanistan identify solely as "Afghan Jews." [81]
Cabal in Kabul (French: Cabale à Kaboul) is a documentary film directed by filmmaker Dan Alexe. It follows the lives of two men, Zabulon Simantov (Hebrew: זבולון סימן-טוב) and Yitzchak Levin (Hebrew: יצחק לוי), who are said to be the last remaining Jews in Afghanistan.
Zablon Simintov, who lived in Kabul and served as caretaker of Afghanistan's only remaining synagogue, was thought to be the last Jew living in Afghanistan. However, following the 2021 Taliban offensive , his relative, Tova Moradi, was declared the last Jew after Simintov was evacuated to Israel with the aid of Israeli businessman Mordechai ...
The Yu Aw Synagogue (Persian: کنیسای یوآو) is an abandoned Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in the Momanda neighbourhood of the old city of Herat, in western Afghanistan. The area was once known as Mahalla-yi Musahiya, or the "Neighbourhood of the Jews". It is the only synagogue in Herat that has been preserved with ...
Afghanistan–Israel relations (1 C, 1 P) I. Israeli people of Afghan descent (2 C, 1 P) S. Former synagogues in Afghanistan (2 P) Pages in category "Jewish Afghan ...