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Between 2005 and his evacuation from Afghanistan 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 capital city of Kabul.
10 wrz 2021 · Zablon Simintov, Afghanistan’s last Jew, has left the country after the Taliban takeover. The 62-year-old had suffered separation from his family in Israel and endured civil wars and the...
10 wrz 2024 · Congressional leaders posthumously honored 13 U.S. service members who were killed by a suicide bomber in Kabul during the U.S. military's withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 in the Capitol...
13 paź 2021 · It was the story of four children hiding from the Taliban in an apartment in Afghanistan's capital Kabul that made a rabbi thousands of miles away in Brooklyn, New York, pick up his phone and...
27 sie 2021 · By Ron Kampeas August 27, 2021. (JTA) — Zebulon Simantov, Afghanistan’s last Jew, has not left Kabul, despite the best efforts of some Jewish figures and organizations. One of them was...
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.
At least 182 people were killed during the attack, including 169 Afghan civilians, and 13 U.S. service members supporting the evacuation operation. Two of the killed civilians were British dual-nationals and one was the child of a British national.
