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By 1969, approximately 300 Jews remained in Afghanistan, but most of them left Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion in 1979, leaving only 10 Jews in Afghanistan in 1996, most of whom lived in Kabul. Currently, more than 10,000 Jews of Afghan descent live in Israel.
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.
Jews have more than a thousand-year history in Afghanistan, and only slowly began emigrating after World War II. But the rise of communism, the Red Army’s persecution of religious people across...
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The history of the Jews in Afghanistan goes back at least 2,500 years. Ancient Iranian tradition suggests that Jews settled in Balkh, a Zoroastrian and Buddhist...
The man who claims to have been the last Jew in Afghanistan finally arrived in Israel last week under the auspices of the Jewish Agency, after spending three years in Istanbul. He is understood to have gone first to Holon, outside Tel Aviv, and is now settling in Ashdod. Zebulon Simantov, 72, was rescued from Kabul in September 2021 by the ...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The last member of Afghanistan’s Jewish community has left the country. Zebulon Simentov, who lived in a dilapidated synagogue in Kabul, kept kosher and prayed in Hebrew, endured decades of war as the country’s centuries-old Jewish community rapidly dwindled.
The earliest evidence of Jewish settlement in Afghanistan comes from a stone tablet in the year 752 CE.1 In 2011, scholars learned of a relatively small genizah, perhaps originally composed of several hundred documents, which was found in northern Afghanistan. It clearly demonstrates that a Jewish community was present one thousand years ago.
