Afghanistan’s last Jew leaves after Taliban takeover
Zebulon Simentov, the last known Jew living in Afghanistan, closes a window in the Kabul synagogue he lived in and cared for, on August 29, 2009. (AP Photo / David Goldman)
The last member of Afghanistan’s Jewish community has left the country.
Zebulon Simentov—who lived in a dilapidated synagogue in Kabul, kept kosher, and prayed in Hebrew—endured decades of war as the country’s
centuries-old Jewish community rapidly dwindled. But the Taliban takeover in August seems to have been the last straw.
