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Old Yemenite Synagogue (Silwan)

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Old Yemenite Synagogue is a former synagogue in the nineteenth century Yemenite Village Kfar Hashiloach ( ) neighborhood in the Jerusalem district of Silwan .1 In the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine , the Yemenite community was removed from Silwan by the Welfare Bureau of the Va'ad Leumi into the Jewish Quarter as security conditions for Jews worsened. and in 1938, the remaining Yemenite Jews in Silwan were evacuated by the Jewish Community Council on the advice of the police. According to documents in the custodian office and real estate and project advancement expert Edmund Levy, the buildings of the Yemenite Jews were occupied by Arab families without registering ownership. In May, 2015 Ateret Cohanim , a Jewish group that had established legal ownership of the old synagogue, moved into the building.2 "Arabs" threw rocks at the Jews as they moved into the Old Synagogue.3 No balm in Gilead: a personal retrospective of mandate days in Palestine, Sylva M. "Jewish activists move into building in Arab Jerusalem neighborhood Structure in Silwan was once the synagogue of a village built there for Yemenite immigrants in the 1880s, NGO claims" . The Times of Israel .4 "Jews Move into Former Yemenite Synagogue in Silwan Valley The building is one of many where the British Mandate evicted Jews and let Arabs take over" .5

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former synagogue in the nineteenth century yemenite village kfar hashiloach

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restored synagogue from the nineteenth century yemenite village kfar hashiloach

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