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Between 2005 and his evacuation to Israel in 2021, he was widely believed to be the only Jew still living in Afghanistan. He was also the caretaker of and lived in the Kabul synagogue, the only synagogue in the Afghan capital city Kabul.
3 paź 2021 · Zebulon Simentov, Afghanistan’s only remaining Jew, escaped three weeks ago after refusing early opportunities to flee Kabul amid this summer’s American withdrawal.
9 wrz 2021 · Simentov’s status as the last member of the community to live in Afghanistan has received widespread media attention in recent decades, with numerous reports detailing his persistent refusal to...
31 sty 2002 · How do you count the Jews? How many victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were Jewish? Nobody knows, and some are not sure that anyone should be asking the question.
The play, titled The Last Two Jews of Kabul, was written by playwright Josh Greenfeld and was staged in New York in 2002. In January 2005, Levy died of natural causes, leaving the world believing Simintov was the sole known Jew in Afghanistan. [19] He cared for the only synagogue in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. [20]
11 wrz 2021 · Relatives of victims read aloud the names of their loved ones at a New York ceremony. Six moments of silence punctuated the reading, to mark the times the planes crashed and buildings fell. The...
6 wrz 2021 · September 11, 2001: US attacked. Nineteen members of al-Qaeda, a group granted sanctuary in by Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, hijack four commercial airliners in the US. Two of the planes...
