Exploring themes of courage, women’s strength, and survival, Edvy’s debut novel sheds light on the harrowing journey of Yemenite Jewish orphans and the enduring legacy of their community.
Photographer Zion Ozeri, whose parents immigrated to Israel from Yemen, documents the last generation of a bygone era in The Jews of Yemen – The Last Generation.
Yemen was my journey’s first destination, but before long I understood I had to take time and expand my research, leaving behind Sana’a and its bridal attire.
Today, the Jewish community in Hodeidah and Yemen is nearly extinct.
One of Yemen's last remaining Jews, Yahya ben Yosef, passed away recently and was laid to rest by his Muslim neighbours.
Who doesn’t love a piping hot plate of Yemenite soup, or some crispy malawah or jihnun to mop up a plate of hummus and tehina?
The collection was bequeathed to the library by the family of the late Yehuda Levi Nahum, a Jew with a passion for his Yemenite heritage who immigrated to Israel from Yemen in 1929.
The remains were exhumed early on Tuesday morning, according to the family's lawyers, who demanded in 1997 that 10 other graves be opened.
During the first years after the establishment of the State of Israel, hundreds of infants of new olim disappeared.
The all-woman vocal quintet is taking its last boy at the National Library in Jerusalem on February 1-2.
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