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New Development Project Announced in Kabul

mnomansiddiqui96@gmail.com, August 12, 2026August 12, 2026
After the establishment of the state of Israel, the Jewish community requested permission from King Zahir Shah to migrate there. Afghanistan was the only country that allowed its Jewish residents to migrate to Israel without relinquishing their citizenship.[39] Most of those remaining, approximately 2,000 in number, left after the Soviet invasion in 1979.[38][40]
As of 1992, there were believed to be two Jews remaining in Afghanistan, both living in a synagogue in Kabul.[40] The congregation’s Torah scroll was confiscated during the first Islamic Emirate. Zebulon Simontov was believed and widely reported to be Afghanistan’s last Jew, until Tova Moradi fled months after him, with her grandchildren. Moradi, who harbored a rabbi in her home throughout the first Islamic Emirate, lived in Morad Khane, Kabul, for decades. While she was married to a Muslim man as a child, she still covertly attended synagogue and tried to teach her children what Hebrew prayers she could remember from her childhood. As of her departure in November 2021, there are believed to be no Jews in Afghanistan.[38]

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