The Ben-Yisrael family (Photo: Sasson Tiram)
safely in Israel
After a grenade was tossed towards his home, Sa'adia Ben Yisrael decided the time had come for his family to leave the town of Raida for Israel
All over the world Jewish communities are increasingly concerned with the growing wave of anti-Semitism. For Sa'adia Ben-Yisrael in Yemen, the grenade thrown at his family's home proved the final straw.
Under the cover of secrecy, a group of ten Jews, nine of them members of the Ben-Yisrael family, left their Arab homeland for Israel.
Landing in Tel Aviv on Thursday afternoon, Sa'adia, his wife and their seven children seemed overwhelmed by the media attention that welcomed them to their new home. Also waiting for them were representatives from the Jewish Agency, which helped organize the clandestine airlift. More
I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth Isaiah 43:6
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