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The last Jew in Afghanistan


Zabulon Simintov, an Afghan Jew, prepares for prayers at his residence in Kabul

Reuters has an absolutely fascinating profile of Zabulon Simintov, the last known Jewish person living in the entire country of Afghanistan. There were several thousand Jewish people in Afghanistan at the turn of the 20th century, but most of them (including Simintov’s wife and daughters) eventually moved to Israel.

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