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ter in the history of one of the world’s
oldest Jewish communities is com-
ing to an end, but Yemenite Jewry’s
unique, 2,000-year-old contribution
to the Jewish people will continue in
the State of Isra el.”
The operation effectively ends
the Jewish Agency’s efforts to bring
Jewish immigrants to Israel from
civil war-plagued Yemen.
Saudi Arabia and several of its
Sunni Arab allies launched an inter-
vention on March 26 last year to sup-
Yeminite immigrants show Prime Minister Benjamin
port President Abedrabbo Mansour
Netanyahu a 500-600-year-old Torah they brought.
Hadi after Iran-backed Houthi rebels
and their allies seized control of
large parts of Yemen including the capital
The World Health Organization says the
Sanaa.
conflict has left more than 6,200 dead in

Yemen over the last year and the U.N.
has warned of a humanitarian “catastro-
phe.”
Some 49,000 Yemeni Jews were
brought to the nascent State of Israel in
Operation Magic Carpet in 1949-50.
Prime Minister Banjamin Netahyau
on Monday met with the Yeminite
Jewish immigrants,
“Welcome to Jerusalem, the Land of
Israel,” Netanyahu told the travel-weary
group. “I am very excited to see you
here.”
Among the new immigrants from
Raydah was Rabbi Saliman Dahari, who
arrived with his parents and his wife
and met his children upon arrival at the
absorption center in Israel.

The rabbi brought with him a Torah
scroll that is 500-600 years old.
“I am very happy to see that you can
read the Torah,” Netanyahu added.
After the meeting, the group thanked
Netanyahu for his hospitality and for wel-
coming them to the Jewish state.
The father of one of the new arrivals
on Monday was Aharon Zindani, who
was murdered in an anti-Semitic attack
in 2012.
Also in 2012, a young Jewish woman
was abducted, forced to convert to
Islam, and forcibly wed to a Muslim
man.

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The Jerusalem Post contributed to this report.

ZOA TRAINS TEENS TO DEFEND ISRAEL ON CAMPUS

The Zionist Organization of America-Michigan Region recently held its annual
Israel Education Workshop for high school seniors. The students learned about the
history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, anti-Semitism in the media and academia
and the BDS movement.
In preparation for college next year, the students received training on how to
defend Israel on campus. Each of the students will also be eligible to apply for a
scholarship from ZOA toward an organized trip to Israel.

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High school seniors who attended ZOA workshop

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