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The Old Yemenite Synagogue, known to its congregation as Beit Knesset Ohel Shlomo (lit. "Solomon's Tent Synagogue"), is a restored synagogue
[American Friends of Ateret Cohanim/Jerusalem Chai]
The Yemenite Village
from a September 2015 newsletter. Accessed August 2020. from the nineteenth century
Yemenite Village (Harat al-Yaman in
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...
),
[ the ''Kfar Hashiloach'' ( he, כפר השילוח) neighborhood in the Jerusalem district of ]Silwan
Silwan or Siloam ( ar, سلوان, translit=Silwan; gr, Σιλωὰμ, translit=Siloam; he, כְּפַר הַשִּׁילוֹחַ, translit=''Kfar ha-Shiloaḥ'') is a predominantly Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem, on the outskir ...
.
History
Jewish community in Silwan (1884-1938)
Between 1885 and 1891, 45 stone houses were built for the Yemenite Jews
Yemenite Jews or Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from ''Yehudei Teman''; ar, اليهود اليمنيون) are those Jews
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Is ...
which had arrived in Jerusalem in 1882
In 1936, during the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, the Yemenite-Jewish community was removed from Silwan by the Welfare Bureau of the Jerusalem Community Council (''Va'ad ha-Kehillah''), the local counterpart of the Jewish National Council
The Jewish National Council (JNC; he, ועד לאומי, ''Va'ad Le'umi''), also known as the Jewish People's Council was the main national executive organ of the Assembly of Representatives of the Jewish community (Yishuv) within Mandatory Pale ...
(''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.[Documents show Arabs illegally obtained Jewish homes in Silwan]
Bill Hutman, Jerusalem Post. Retrieved October 14, 2010.[WHO OWNS THE LAND?]
Gail Lichtman, Jerusalem Post. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
Jewish reclaim (2015)
In May, 2015 Ateret Cohanim
Ateret Cohanim ( he, עמותת עטרת כהנים ''lit.'', "Crown of the Priests"), also Ateret Yerushalayim, is an Israeli Jewish organization with a yeshiva located in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. It supports the creatio ...
, a Jewish group that had established legal ownership of the old synagogue, moved into the building.Joyus return to 130 Year Old Jerusalm Synangague May 26, 2015
/ref> Local residents threw rocks at the activists as they moved in.[
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References
Synagogues in Jerusalem
Synagogues in the West Bank
Synagogues completed in 1890
Yemeni-Jewish diaspora
Silwan
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