Yemenite jews

IDF recruits Yemeni Jews to bolster intelligence efforts against Houthis - report

The US has informed Israel that, by the end of US President Joe Biden’s term in office, America intends to escalate its attacks on Yemen’s Houthis, according to a KAN News report.

Yemenite culture in Israel
 Ali Al Bukhaiti in 2021.

Former Houthi spox. to 'Post': Israel can contribute to the overthrowing of the Houthis

 SHANI OSHRI will be backed by a 12-piece ensemble playing Western and traditional Eastern instruments.

A woman's world of sound: 'Memory Traces' touts Jewish women in Yemen of yore

 Benny Endy, author of "The Lost Orphan Boy"

Benny Edvy’s The Lost Orphan Boy Brings resilience and forgotten histories to life


New photo exhibit at ANU highlights rich heritage of the Jews of Yemen

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.

 The Jews of Yemen – The Last Generation.

'Come Forth, O Yemen': Art exhibit highlights Yemenite Jewry

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.

 A selection from Avigail Ohana’s art exhibition.

Israeli strikes in Yemen bring renewed attention to Hodeidah's Jewish history

Today, the Jewish community in Hodeidah and Yemen is nearly extinct.

A family have breakfast outside their home at a Jewish community in Sanaa, Yemen

One of Yemen's last Jews laid to rest by his Muslim neighbors - report

One of Yemen's last remaining Jews, Yahya ben Yosef, passed away recently and was laid to rest by his Muslim neighbours.

 View of the grave of Tair Rada that was vandalized by unknown attackers, at the Katzrin cemetery, Golan Heights, January 27, 2023.

Tsarum: A Yemenite feast in Herzliya - review

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?

 Tsarum

World's largest collection of Yemenite Jewish manuscripts donated to Israel's National Library

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.

 Manuscript in Judeo-Arabic of Shalom Shabazi’s poetry collection (diwan) in the author's own handwriting. Yemen, 17th century.

Yemenite Children Affair: Burial site opened after family request, court order

The remains were exhumed early on Tuesday morning, according to the family's lawyers, who demanded in 1997 that 10 other graves be opened.

 A cemetery is seen in Migdal Ha’emek, northern Israel

Israeli committee to examine medical system's role in Yemenite Children Affair

During the first years after the establishment of the State of Israel, hundreds of infants of new olim disappeared.

 JEWISH AGENCY representatives meet Yemenite immigrants arriving at Lod Airport in 1949. (Wikimedia Commons)

A new look into Yemenite Jewish music with all-woman quintet

The all-woman vocal quintet is taking its last boy at the National Library in Jerusalem on February 1-2.

THE BANAT el Yemen vocal quintet will appear at this week’s Besod Kolot Rabim Festival at the National Library, in Jerusalem

Eyal El Wahab infuses Yemenite authenticity into his music

The group’s next performances are on December 15 as part of the Spectrum Festival in Jerusalem; and on December 31, when they open for Dudu Tassa at the Barby Club in Tel Aviv.

 EL WAHAB plays his ‘saucepan’ instrument alongside Yemenite singer Bracha Cohen at HaMifSfal in Jerusalem.

Grapevine October 23, 2022: A Yemenite festival

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Yemeni Jews demonstrate outside the Cabinet office in Sanaa, March 2009