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Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, chairman of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States, greets 62-year-old Zebulon Simantov, “Afghanistan’s last Jew,” at the airport in Istanbul, September 2021. Source: Twitter.

Afghanistan’s last Jew arrives in Israel

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Zebulon Simantov, Afghanistan's last Jew, who was rescued from Kabul in September 2021, arrived in Israel last week. Simantov initially went to Turkey, spending three years in Istanbul, and would have continued there but was prompted to...