The Yemeni Jewish community was over 50,000 strong in the early 20th century, but between 1949 and 1950, Israel brought nearly 49,000 Yemenite Jews to the state.

The total number of Jews in Raida, Yemen’s largest Jewish community, is not more than 100 people, according to Jewish community leader Rabbi Suleiman Yahya. Nevertheless, ...

In recent weeks, Jewish organizations have insisted that Yemen’s tiny Jewish population is in grave danger and that a secret evacuation is necessary to bring the people to safety. But a new ...

Yemen’s Jewish community is estimated to have reached about 200,000 before members began leaving early in the last century, the exodus reaching a pinnacle in 1949 and 1950 with Operation Magic ...

"Yemenite Jewry's unique, 2,000-year-old contribution to the Jewish people will continue in the State of Israel." The Jewish Agency did not reveal details of the mission, which it described as a ...

The majority of what was Yemen's 50,000-strong Jewish community immigrated to Israel upon the declaration of the Jewish state in 1948. Yahya, wearing traditional Yemeni clothes including a thawb ...

Levi Salem Musa Marhabi, a member of Yemen’s Jewish community, has endured four years of wrongful detention. We call for his immediate release. — Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) November 11, 2020 ...

Today, the Jewish community in Hodeidah and Yemen is nearly extinct. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, the few remaining Jews have faced extreme persecution, leading to further emigration.

Yemen’s information minister said his government is unaware of the fate of the country’s few dozen remaining Jews, most of whom reside in the Houthi rebel group-controlled capital of Sana’a ...

Passover is a time for family, for tradition, and for festive celebration. It’s also a time to fix a paradox.

The National Library of Israel has announced the acquisition of 60,000 Yemenite Jewish manuscripts and text fragments which made up one of the most significant private collections of Judaica in ...