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Old February 14th, 2022 #121
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Bennett arrives in Bahrain on first visit by an Israeli prime minister


Premier slated to meet king, crown prince in bid to deepen bilateral relationship with Gulf island nation; will also meet local Jewish community

By TAL SCHNEIDER and LAZAR BERMAN
Today, 3:20 pm Updated at 8:34 pm



Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrives in Manama, Bahrain, February 14, 2022 (Haim Zach / GPO)

MANAMA, Bahrain — In a first for an Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett took off for a 24-hour visit to Bahrain early on Monday evening.

Arriving some two hours later in the capital Manama, he was greeted by Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani and Industry, Commerce and Tourism Minister Zayed Rashid Al-Zayani.

Bennett is slated to meet Bahrain’s ruler, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, and the country’s crown prince and prime minister, Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/bennet...an-israeli-pm/
 
Old March 10th, 2022 #122
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Istanbul Airport opens a kosher meal vending machine for its many Jewish travelers


BY DAVID I. KLEIN MARCH 8, 2022 5:15 PM



ISTANBUL (JTA) — The Istanbul Airport is one of the busiest in Europe, serving nearly 40 million people in 2021. Many of its observant Jewish travelers often get stuck in layovers there without kosher food options.

Now they have a flashy new go-to: a kosher vending machine, in addition to hot kosher meals sold in some of the airport’s lounges.
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“There’s more flights to Tel Aviv than to London,” Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, who helped organize the arrangement, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “It’s definitely a very important hub where hundreds of thousands of kosher eating Jews pass through, and sometimes they stop over, sometimes they get stuck.”

Chitrik is Turkey’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi, and a member of the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement. He manages kosher certifying operations on behalf of the Turkish Rabbinate, but he also represents the Israeli Rabbinate, the U.S.-based Orthodox Union and several other certifying agencies in the country.
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Though only 15,000 Jews live in Turkey amid a total population of 80 million the country is a significant producer of kosher products. Overall, Turkey is the world’s seventh-largest food producer, and more than three hundred factories around the country have kosher certification and export their products to Israel, America and Europe.
https://www.jta.org/2022/03/08/globa...wish-travelers
 
Old March 22nd, 2022 #123
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Singapore to open embassy in Israel after 57 years of ties, in sign of Abraham Accords’ spillover effects


BY RON KAMPEAS MARCH 21, 2022 5:49 PM



(JTA) — Singapore will upgrade its presence in Israel from consulate to embassy, in the latest move reflecting thawing relations between Israel and Muslim countries.

Israel and Singapore forged diplomatic ties in 1965 and have enjoyed friendly relations for decades. Israel sells Singapore defense equipment and has had an embassy in the country since 1968.

However, Singapore, mindful of its huge Muslim-majority neighbors, Malaysia and Indonesia, has sought to keep the ties out of the public eye. The Times of Israel reported that Israel’s defense minister, Benny Gantz, visited the country last year but kept it quiet out of deference to Singapore.
https://www.jta.org/2022/03/21/israe...llover-effects
 
Old May 25th, 2022 #124
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BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ MAY 23, 2022 10:58 PM



A Jewish man walks through the Jewish cemetery in Morocco's northern city of Meknes, May 18, 2022. (Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)

(JTA) — Authorities in Morocco completed a renovation of the historic Jewish cemetery in the city of Meknes, part of a broader overhaul of Jewish heritage sites that coincides with the country’s reestablishment of diplomatic ties with Israel.

The restoration was finished earlier this month ahead of a visit by several dozen Jews, many of them from Israel, on May 19, AFP reported. The 10-acre graveyard contains thousands of bodies and is centuries old. Many of the graves are built atop older ones.
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Jews pray at the Jewish cemetery of Meknes, Morocco, May 18, 2022. (Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)
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A member of the Moroccan Jewish community visits the Meknes cemetery, Oct. 27, 2021. (Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)
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But in 2010, King Mohammed VI of Morocco started a renovation program for Jewish heritage sites in his country. Dozens in Morocco and beyond have been restored and preserved, including the Jewish Museum of Casablanca and a new Jewish culture center in Essaouira, another former hub of Moroccan Judaism.
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Following the rapprochement, Moroccan and Israeli airlines began operating direct flights to and from Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, dramatically boosting the volume of touristic travel between the two countries. About 200,000 Israelis are expected to visit Morocco in 2022, according to Israel’s Channel 13.
https://www.jta.org/2022/05/23/globa...tery-of-meknes
 
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BY CALEB GUEDES-REED JUNE 24, 2022 4:17 PM

(JTA) – Two policemen standing guard at the Grand Synagogue in the center of the Tunisian capital of Tunis were stabbed on Thursday.

It is not clear whether anyone was in the synagogue at the time of the attack, AFP reported.

The suspect, who was imprisoned in 2021 over a terrorism case and has since been released, wounded the officers but was overpowered.
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While the country’s current Jewish population is estimated at around a thousand, Tunisia once had a booming Jewish community of around 100,000.
https://www.jta.org/2022/06/24/globa...gue-in-tunisia
 
Old September 18th, 2022 #126
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Chabad couple holds UAE’s largest-ever Jewish wedding on anniversary of peace deal with Israel


BY CNAAN LIPHSHIZ SEPTEMBER 14, 2022 3:47 PM



(JTA) — Hundreds of Jews from all over the world have gathered in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, ahead of the two-year anniversary of its establishment of diplomatic ties with Israel.

But the crowds aren’t in town to honor the Abraham Accords — at least not directly.

They came to party Wednesday at the largest Jewish wedding in the history of the UAE, which the bride and groom, emissaries of the Chabad movement who are living in that country, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the signing of the accords.

About 1,500 people, including dignitaries and Emirati royals as well as rabbis stationed around the world, attended the wedding of Rabbi Levi Duchman, 29, who was born in Brooklyn and has been living in the UAE since 2014, and Lea Hadad of Brussels, 27, according to the media relations department of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
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Duchman is one of several Orthodox rabbis working to cultivate Jewish life in the UAE, including Elie Abadie and Yehuda Sarna, who are not affiliated with Chabad. Prior to moving to Abu Dhabi, he lived with a sister and her family in Morocco, where he became committed to Jews in the Arab world, according to the Chabad statement.
https://www.jta.org/2022/09/14/globa...al-with-israel
 
Old October 1st, 2022 #127
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Moroccan Textbooks Emphasize Jewish History, Report Says


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The Lazama Synagogue in Marrakech, Morocco. Photo: David Berkowitz/Flickr.

School textbooks in the Kingdom of Morocco promote appreciation of Jews and educate students about their contributions to the country, according to an analysis by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

Morocco became in 2020 the first Arab country to include Jewish history in its school curriculum. The decision was announced after the Abraham Accords normalized relations with Israel. The ADL’s review of the new curriculum is the first since Israel and Morocco’s rapprochement opened what many hope is a new era in the Middle East.

“The country’s elementary school textbooks depict Jews as an integral part of Moroccan society whose heritage and societal contributions are national assets,” the ADL said on Thursday. “This poses a contrast to textbooks in other countries in the Middle East and North Africa, where Jews are routinely demonized and positive descriptions of Jews are scarce.”

One example from the curriculum that the ADL cited shared a story titled “Hosted by Sami” about a friendship between three Jewish and Muslim Moroccan youth, Sami, Ibrahim, and Idris. It ends with Sami’s mother serving them “a mouthwatering dish” called Skinha on the Sabbath.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/09/3...y-report-says/
 
Old November 24th, 2022 #128
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There’s no beer at the World Cup in Qatar, but there are kosher bagels


BY DAVID I. KLEIN NOVEMBER 22, 2022 9:42 AM

(JTA) — Qatar may have caused an uproar by banning alcohol at the World Cup soccer tournament in Doha this month, but for religious Jewish fans, some kosher offerings will be available, thanks to two rabbis.

Rabbi Marc Schneier, from New York, and Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s emissary to Istanbul, worked with Qatari officials to create a kosher catering program to provide for observant Jews who may attend the games.
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The kitchen is under the supervision of Chitrik, who manages kosher certification operations in Turkey — one of the world’s largest food producers — on behalf of the Orthodox Union, the Israeli Rabbinate and the Turkish Rabbinate. He has also helped facilitate kosher operations elsewhere in the Middle East, such as the United Arab Emirates. Chitrik’s son Eli, also a rabbi, will stay in Qatar for the duration of the tournament to supervise the facility.
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Schneier believes that the project has value beyond just filling empty stomachs — the bagels could be a step towards normalizing Jewish life in Qatar, which is currently nonexistent.

Both Chitrik and Schneier work in the realm of building Jewish-Islamic relations. Schneier is the president and founder of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, a nonprofit devoted to improving Jewish-Muslim relations, while Chitrik leads the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States.
https://www.jta.org/2022/11/22/globa...-kosher-bagels
 
Old November 25th, 2022 #129
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Bucking regional denial, UAE to include Holocaust in school curricula

Working with Yad Vashem memorial and education monitor group IMPACT-se, Emirati ministries are building material for elementary and high schools


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22 November 2022, 2:43 pm Updated at 9:57 pm

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DUBAI — The United Arab Emirates is taking major steps to combat a regional culture of Holocaust denial in the wake of the 2020 Abraham Accords that normalized its relations with Israel.

Once entirely absent from the learning materials of children in the UAE — which also blacked out Israel from world maps and globes — the Holocaust is now set to be fully included in the curriculum, as the Gulf country moves to position itself as a regional peacemaker.

Last year, the region’s first Holocaust memorial exhibition opened in Dubai, just months after the US-brokered accords ended a more than 70-year impasse between Israel and the UAE.

Since then, seven Holocaust survivors have been brought to the country to speak on the horrors of the Nazi genocide, including UK-based Eve Kugler, 91, a German-born survivor who spoke earlier this month on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the November 9, 1938, pogrom in Germany.

As the UAE’s Education Ministry builds the new curricula, which will be for children in both primary and secondary school, the Tel Aviv- and London-based Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) has been advising on educational standards, including assessing course content.

Marcus Sheff, IMPACT-se’s CEO, said the UAE’s curricula were already “head and shoulders” above those of other regional countries in that they show “no evidence of hate at all,” nor antisemitism, and “recognize Judaism’s historic place in the Arab World.”

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, has also been working with the UAE’s Culture and Youth Ministry on curriculum development. It will be sharing much of its Arabic content as well as helping to develop fresh materials for the UAE.

“Holocaust denial in the Arab-Muslim world has been a historic challenge for us… but these important developments are indicative of a change that we saw beginning in Morocco, where they began addressing the Holocaust more,” said Robert Rosette, senior historian at the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem.

In late 2020, just after signing onto the Abraham Accords, Morocco, which has a centuries-old Jewish community, announced it would finally include Jewish history and culture in its curricula.

Bringing the subject into the public domain not only helps people to understand the broader context of the Middle East but also helps them to identify distortions of the Holocaust, explained Rosette, who hopes the UAE’s move will spread to other countries in the Arab and Muslim world.
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This is the final stage of the jew push to establish the one world global government and all nations of the world under their satanic banner of Globohomo. Unfortunately all the muslim nations have been taken over as well and only Iran and Syria are resisting.
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Saudi Arabia wants to normalize ties with Israel - report


A recent report claimed that Saudi Arabia wants to normalize ties with Israel, though it will take time and hinges on the US meeting demands.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF Published: DECEMBER 6, 2022 17:47
Updated: DECEMBER 6, 2022 21:04



Saudi Arabia is looking to normalize ties with Israel, although it will be a while before this ever properly manifests, Israeli news outlet i24NEWS reported Tuesday.

The article cited Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Abdel al-Jubeir, who recently spoke to senior American Jewish leaders. There, he guaranteed that Israeli-Saudi normalization will happen eventually, but stressed that it will take time.

In addition, in a meeting with US officials visiting Riyadh courtesy of the Washington Institute, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman listed three main demands that must be met for Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords and normalize ties with Israel, according to i24NEWS.

According to the report, these demands did not include anything about the Palestinian conflict or requests for Israel. Rather, they hinged entirely on the US, specifically affirming a US-Saudi alliance, proper weapons supplies to the kingdom as if it were a NATO country and allowing Riyadh to have a restricted civil nuclear program.
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Saudi track for normalization with Israel

Saudi Arabia would be the latest Arab nation to normalize ties with Israel through the Abraham Accords, following the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco signing on in September 2020.

Since then, there has been speculation over whether Saudi Arabia would follow suit. Since then, there has been progress, and Israeli officials have reportedly visited Saudi Arabia for secret talks - with then prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu even reportedly secretly meeting with Mohammed bin Salman. However, Saudi officials have long stressed the need for a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict before considering it.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-724199

The ties between Pissrael and Saudi Arabia already exist, it's just that they're kept (more or less) secret.
 
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JANUARY 6, 2023 2:09 PM

United Arab Emirates Adds Holocaust Education to School Curriculum


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Flags of United Arab Emirates and Israel flutter during Israel’s National Day ceremony at Expo 2020 Dubai, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 31, 2022. REUTERS/Christopher Pike

Two years after normalizing relations with Israel through the Abraham Accords, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will include Holocaust education in its school curriculum, the country’s embassy confirmed on Thursday.

“Memorializing the victims of the Holocaust is crucial,” said Dr. Ali Al Nuaimi a member of the UAE Federal National Council and mediator of the Abraham Accords at a November event in Washington DC, first reported by The Times of Israel. “Public figures failed to speak the truth because a political agenda hijacked their narrative, yet a tragedy on the scale of the Holocaust targets not only Jews, but humanity of the as a whole.”

Nuaimi added that “public figures and scholars should be encouraged to discuss the Holocaust and protect common human values while leaving political differences.”

“The United Arab Emirates has been leading the way in peace and tolerance education in the region for some years,” said Impact-se CEO on Thursday. “Impact-se is delighted that they have taken this important step in educating about the Shoah and humbled to have partnered with the Ministry Education.”

Also responding to the news, Combat Antisemitism Movement, a nonprofit monitoring antisemitism, said, “This is a major step in combating the regional culture of Holocaust denial and normalizing relations with Israel.”

The UAE has steadily promoted coexistence and positive engagement with Jews and Christians in recent years, creating what Impact-se, an Israeli education watchdog, describes as the “most tolerant and peaceful Arab or Muslim majority country curriculum.”

In one example assessed by Impact-se Emirati students are taught that the Prophet Muhammad visited a sick Jewish child, and in another, that Omar bin Al-Khattab, the second Rashidun caliph, ruled in a favor of a Jew in a civil case.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/01/0...ol-curriculum/
 
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Antakya’s remaining Jews flown to Jewish nursing home in Istanbul


BY DAVID I. KLEIN FEBRUARY 16, 2023 3:34 PM



(JTA) — The remaining few Jews of Antakya have been transferred to Istanbul, where they are staying in a Jewish nursing home thanks to a collaboration between the Turkish Jewish community there, a Kazakh-Israeli billionaire and Israel’s fundraising organization Keren Hayesod.

While there have been a variety of ways for survivors to leave Turkey in the wake of last week’s earthquake that killed over 40,000 — including through the Turkish budget airline Pegasus, which is offering evacuation flights free of charge from several cities — Antakya’s Jews were helped by Alexander Machkevitch, a Jewish businessman from Kazakhstan who is one of the richest men in Israel with a net worth of over $2.4 billion.
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Despite their small numbers, Antakya’s Jewish community was known amongst Turkish Jews for being fiercely traditional, only consuming kosher meat. In the nursing home, they are being provided with kosher food.
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Jews have been present in the city, known in antiquity as Antioch, for nearly 2,500 years, since its founding under the Seleucid Empire. Though several hundred Jews lived in the city at the time of Cenudioglu’s birth in the 1940s, by last year their number had dwindled to only 14, the youngest of whom was over 60. Many of them worked in shops in the city’s famed Long Bazaar market.
https://www.jta.org/2023/02/16/globa...me-in-istanbul

Oh, and by the way... This is how jews really feel about all the non-jews who died in the earthquake:

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Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, who is close to Itamar Ben Gvir and the father of a far-right minister, says disaster ‘cleanses the world, makes it better’; some rabbis aghast at comments

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Chief Rabbi of Safed Shmuel Eliyahu, a prominent figure in Israel’s national-religious movement, said in a Friday column that a devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria earlier this week, killing tens of thousands, was “divine justice.”

In the article published in Olam Katan, a popular conservative religious right-wing weekly newsletter, Eliyahu, who has close ties to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, compared the earthquake to the drowning of the Egyptian forces in the Red Sea in the biblical story of Exodus.
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Turning to the massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake, which has killed at least 25,000 people in Turkey and neighboring Syria, Eliyahu said: “God is judging all the nations around us who wanted to invade our land several times and throw us into the sea.”

“This is about Syria — which abused its Jewish residents for hundreds of years in the blood libels of Damascus and others; which invaded Israel three times in order to kill and destroy,” he said.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-na...ivine-justice/
 
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Working with Yad Vashem memorial and education monitor group IMPACT-se, Emirati ministries are building material for elementary and high schools


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Acknowledging ‘reputational risk,’ ADL chief defends partnership with undemocratic United Arab Emirates


BY RON KAMPEAS MARCH 23, 2023 5:04 PM



(JTA) — The announcement was akin to several that Jewish groups have made in recent years: a new partnership with an Arab nation would advance coexistence in the Middle East.

Except that the group announcing the new alliance last week was the Anti-Defamation League, which devotes itself to fighting for human and civil rights. And the country it’s partnering with is the United Arab Emirates, an autocracy that, say the U.S. government and civil rights advocates alike, is guilty of a wide range of such abuses.

The new Manara Regional Center For Coexistence, based in Abu Dhabi, will “engage young leaders across the Middle East and North Africa, empowering them to build ties with peers and foster a shared commitment to coexistence,” according to a tweet by ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, who traveled to the UAE for the center’s launch.

The ADL partners with a wide array of organizations in the United States and beyond to achieve its mission. But Greenblatt told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he recognized that working with the UAE could be complicated.
https://www.jta.org/2023/03/23/polit...-arab-emirates
 
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5 killed, including 2 Jewish pilgrims, in shooting attack on historic Tunisian synagogue


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Jewish pilgrims at the Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia's southern resort island of Djerba, May 08, 2023. (Hasan Mrad/DeFodi Images via Getty Images)

(JTA) — A gunman killed five people in an attack on an ancient synagogue in Tunisia, during an annual pilgrimage that attracts thousands of Jews and is seen as a rare instance of Jewish partnership with an Arab nation.

Two of the dead were Jewish cousins who had traveled to Djerba from France and Israel for festivities at El Ghriba synagogue; Aviel Hadad, 30, was a Tunisian citizen living in Netivot, Israel, and Benjamin Haddad, 42, lived in France. The three other dead were Tunisian security officials, according to Tunisia’s foreign ministry.

The gunman was also a Tunisian security guard who was killed by security officials, according to Tunisia’s TAP news agency, which said a number of other people were wounded, some seriously.

The attack took place at the end of an evening of festivities at El Ghriba, a site of Jewish worship dating back 2,500 years that is also a central attraction of the pilgrimage taking place each year on or around Lag b’Omer, a break during the 49 days of mourning between Passover and Shavuot.
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“I think it’s a death blow, at least for the foreseeable future, to a beautiful tradition and pilgrimage, and it is causing palpable pain,” Avi Chana, a French-Israeli Jew who was born in Tunisia and has participated in the pilgrimage, told the Times of Israel. “This is dealing the pilgrimage a mortal blow.”

About 1,000 Jews are estimated to live in Tunisia, one of the only continual Jewish communities in the Arab world. Most of Tunisia’s Jewish population, estimated at over 100,000 prior to 1948, left the country for Israel or France by 1970.
https://www.jta.org/2023/05/10/globa...sian-synagogue
 
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‘Jewish life goes on’: Djerba Jews and their supporters show resilience after deadly attack


BY RON KAMPEAS MAY 10, 2023 10:22 PM



Interior of La Ghriba Synagogue, Djerba, Tunisia (Photo courtesy of Chrystie Sherman/Diarna Geo-Museum of North African & Middle Eastern Jewish Life)

(JTA) — The day after a gunman killed four people outside an ancient place of Jewish worship on the Tunisian island of Djerba, men gathered in the same synagogue not to mourn, but to celebrate.

They were there to witness the blessing of a new life: a brit milah, or ritual circumcision. Not long after, a recording of the ceremony, complete with the men chanting in Hebrew as they surrounded the eight-day-old baby, made its way to the phone of Isaac Choua, a Sephardic rabbi living in New York.

For Choua, watching the ceremony was a relief from the horrors that had emerged the day before, when a rogue security official at the Tunisian synagogue killed two Jewish cousins, Aviel Haddad, 30, and Benjamin Haddad, 43, as well as two security guards before being gunned down.

“Something beautiful happened,” said Choua, the Middle East and North Africa communities liaison for the World Jewish Congress, in an interview. “They had a brit milah in Djerba, even with all the chaos. Jewish life goes on.”

Tuesday’s deadly shooting came during the Hiloula, an annual pilgrimage and celebration of Jewish sages held on or around Lag b’Omer, which takes place a little more than a month after the beginning of Passover. The annual festivity attracts thousands of Jews from around the world, many of Tunisian descent. It is held at the El Ghriba synagogue — a 19th-century building constructed on a site believed to have been a Jewish house of worship for as long as 2,500 years.

The pilgrimage has grown substantially in recent years, after trepidation following an attack on the synagogue by Al-Qaeda in 2002 that killed 20 people, and a suspension of the pilgrimage in 2011 amid security concerns in the wake of the Arab Spring, which began in Tunisia.

The Tunisian government has invested in the pilgrimage, billing it as a symbol of the country’s tolerance, and has provided intense security. Last year, Tunisia was one of six African countries that signed the “Call of Rabat,” an initiative of the American Sephardi Federation that sought a commitment to preserving Jewish heritage on the continent.
https://www.jta.org/2023/05/10/globa...-deadly-attack
 
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In a first, Israel’s prime minister will visit Morocco


BY RON KAMPEAS JULY 19, 2023 2:57 PM



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(JTA) — Moroccan King Mohammed VI invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Morocco days after Israel recognized the country’s claim to the disputed Western Sahara.

“The invitation was sent in a warm, personal letter in which His Majesty thanked the State of Israel for its recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement it released Wednesday. “King Mohammed VI wrote Prime Minister Netanyahu that the visit would open up new possibilities for strengthening relations between their two countries.”
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Moroccan Jews, who have been present in the country for centuries, have maintained close ties with its leadership even during periods when there were no relations with Israel. The country’s Jewish community, once estimated in the hundreds of thousands, numbered just over 2,000 in 2015, according to a prominent researcher.
https://www.jta.org/2023/07/19/globa...-visit-morocco
 
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The brilliant Swedish-based, Moroccan-born anti-zionist Ahmed Rami has written about the nefarious jewish influence in Morocco in his excellent Swedish-language autobiography Ett liv för frihet ("A life for freedom"). In the book he stated that the country's king Hassan II was a jew-puppet, and that he had participated in the 1972 Moroccan coup attempt which sought to overthrow him. Unfortunately, the coup failed, so Rami sought and obtained political asylum in Sweden in 1973:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Rami_(writer)

And yes, folks, Rami was right about Hassan II being a jew-puppet. For example, one of the king's close advisers (read: handlers) was the very influential jew André Azoulay:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Azoulay

And look at Wikipedia's list of famous Moroccan jews:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocc..._Moroccan_Jews

Is it any wonder that the country's government is so pro-jewish?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel–Morocco_relations

This relationship was secret because the crooked jew-lackey Hassan II knew very well that the Arab/Muslim population despises the genocidal bandit state of Pissrael.
Once again we see that Morocco's current king Mohammed VI is a jew-puppet just like his despicable father, the previous king, Hassan II. (He even retained his father's jewish adviser André Azoulay.)

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Moroccan receives jail term for decrying normalization with Israel


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This file photo shows Morocco’s King Mohammed VI. (By AFP)

A Moroccan man has been sentenced to five years in prison for denouncing the country’s normalization of relations with Israel in posts on Facebook.

The Court of First Instance in Casablanca issued the verdict against Said Boukioud, 48, on July 31 for posts denouncing the normalization “in a way that could be interpreted as criticism of the king,” his lawyer El Hassan Essouni said Wednesday.

The lawyer described the verdict as “harsh and incomprehensible,” saying his client was expressing rejection of normalization and had no intention to offend the King.

The lawyer said he had appealed the ruling.

The Facebook posts were published in the last days of 2020, when Boukioud was living and working in Qatar. According to his lawyer, Boukioud deleted the posts and closed his account once he discovered he was facing prosecution in Morocco.

However, he was detained upon his return to Casablanca last week.
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A recent survey found that an overwhelming majority of people in Arab countries oppose normalization of relations with Israel, and consider the regime’s policies to be a threat to regional stability.
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'Zionists have no safe place': Hezbollah raps new Israeli embassy opening in Bahrain


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Israeli foreign minister Eli Cohen (3rd R) and his Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif al-Zayani (3rd L) officially inaugurate the Israeli embassy in Manama, Bahrain, on September 4, 2023. (Photo by Reuters)

The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement has strongly condemned Bahrain’s ruling Al Khalifah regime over allowing Israel to officially open its embassy in the Persian Gulf kingdom despite widespread protests.

In a Tuesday statement, Hezbollah said Bahrain's ruling regime is in a "political and moral decline" as it pushes for normalization with the Israeli enemy after "years of oppressing the Bahraini nation, who hold opposing beliefs and have long been demanding freedom as well as justice."

“This ominous betrayal constitutes a blow to Palestinian people, who are currently engaged in epic battles and heroic operations in the face of Zionists’ blind terrorism,” it added.

The resistance movement underscored that the Bahraini nation as well as all peoples of the Muslim Ummah roundly reject normalization and establishment of ties with Israel, reiterating that "the Zionists can’t have a safe place in the region."
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