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The United Jewish Communities is working with the US State Department, local federations and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society to implement the evacuation and help finance the $800,000 expense of absorbing the 110 Yemenite Jews, who represent more than a third of the roughly 280-strong community…
The Yemeni government are taking precautionary measures to confront any Israeli attempt to transfer the remaining Yemen Jews to Israel, in particular after one of the Yemeni-Jewish family was transferred to Israel last month, sources reported to Nabanews…
A Muslim man who shot dead a Jewish teacher in broad daylight was ordered yesterday to pay the victim’s family US$27,500 (Dh100,925) in blood money, but escaped the death sentence after the judge ruled he was mentally ill, a verdict the family’s lawyer called a “scandal”…
A news report from Israel National News. The group is working to bring the other Jews to Israel too…
Al-Quds al-Arabi has a piece on the Yemeni Jews from Amran recently airlifted to Israel. Highlights include the blaming of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the claim that the rest of the Jews have had their passports confiscated by the Yemeni government, and the involvement of the U.S. embassy in Sana’a…
Incase you haven’t been following it, Operation Magic Carpet II just happened. Nine Jews who felt threatened in Yemen following the Murder of a Jewish Rabbi, were secretly taken to Israel. Here is the video of their arrival. Culture shock I’m sure…
Four Jewish families have arrived in Sana’a coming from Amran province launching the relocation of Jews to the city, a spokesman for head of the Parliament Committee on Freedoms and Rights.
A number of Yemeni Jews said that they are preparing to leave the country along with their families due to the fact that the government allegedly failed to protect them from extremists. These extremists are supported by influential figures in the Amran governorate.