(JTA) — Ebrahim Dahood Nonoo, the leader of Bahrain’s tiny Jewish community, was among the Gulf country’s approximately 50 Jews who thought peace with Israel would never arrive “in our lifetimes.” “It just didn’t seem possible,” Nonoo told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency from Manama, the capital city where he lives with his wife. Tuesday’s signing […]
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Bahraini Jewish community sees opportunity to grow with normalization
Today the community is aging with much of the youth leaving to study abroad and ultimately not returning, often moving to New York or London. The Bahraini Jewish community, always very small in size, today numbers some 50 souls. But with the normalization agreement between Israel and the Gulf Kingdom that is due to be formalized on […]
After Israel deal, Bahrain’s Jews seek to revive community with new rabbi, synagogue
When the majority of Jewish families in Bahrain fled the country in the aftermath of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Nonoo family stayed – despite the country’s only synagogue being burnt down in the capital city Manama. Now the new generation of the family is planning to revive the remnants of the declining Jewish community – including […]
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Bahrain Jewish community welcomes normalization: ‘A historic moment’
Kingdom home to small number of Jews, mostly of Iraqi origin; leader says deal with Israel ‘never expected in our lifetime’ Bahrain’s Jewish community welcomed its normalization agreement with Israel on Friday. “This is a historic moment that we have never expected to see in our lifetime,” the head of Bahrain’s Jewish community, Ebrahim Dahood […]
Los lazos entre Israel y el Golfo crecerán en 2021, afirman los expertos
Agencia AJN.- El rápido cambio desde que comenzaron los Acuerdos de Abraham en agosto ha generado una de las relaciones globales de más rápido crecimiento entre países. Agencia AJN.- Una docena de expertos pronosticaron una amplia gama de asociaciones y conexiones cada vez mayores entre Israel y los países del Golfo en 2021. Esto cubrirá […]