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UPDATE June 4, 2019: The Yemenite Organization for Humanitarian Relief and Development/MONA website shows 9 or 10 reports since 2016 of the dozen or so families in Sana’a receiving aid, most recently Feb 25, 2019: “monthly food aid packages to Jewish minority families in Yemen. Mona Relief has been delivering food aid baskets to Jewish community in the capital Sana'a since 2016. Our project today was funded by Mona Relief's online fundraising campaign in indiegog.” See the May 30, 2017 MONA blockquote following the videos.
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A modern version of traditional Yemenite “Lecha Dodi, Likrat Shabbat“ melody.
https://www.youtube.com/watch….
“A Yemenite Jewish women’s song” sung by Talya G.A Solan and the Israeli ethnic ensemble.האנסמבל האתני הישראלי עם טליה סולאן בשיר נשים תימני
https://www.youtube.com/watch — — — — — — — — — -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKwmxpQ_jx0
SAPRI TAMA — Se’adyah Ben – TraditionalYemenite http://www.imninalu.net/YemeniteSongs.htm
Pray tell, wondrous innocent,
Tell of the joy in Your naivety.
Wise Daughter of Angels,
Have you found Your home?
Answer, lovely dove,
I sally forth to the Palace
And in the heart of the vessel
And clothes, only, in Your beauty.
Permission has really been given,
Regards to You in your crowning.
Do not be swayed by cloaked enemies, Lass,
And though You reach a frontier,
Look for its border.
Ya ba la la - Traditional Lebanese love song performed by Yamma Ensemble as homage to greatest Fairouz.”
Nouhad Wadie' Haddad (Arabic: نهاد وديع حداد; born November 21, 1934[2][3][4][5]), known as Fairuz (Arabic: فيروز), also spelled Fairouz, Feyrouz or Fayrouz, is a Lebanese singer who is one of the most admired and influential singers in the Arab world.[6][7]
Her songs are constantly heard across the region and broadcast on the radios each morning.[8][9]She is also known as an icon in modern Arabic music and has sold over 150 million records worldwide, making her and Umm Kulthum the two best-selling Middle-Eastern artists of all time….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxPHkabbW18
NEWS OF YEMEN
Jewish News
(general news is below the first map)
What all immediate parties to the war in Yemen tend to agree, is “death to the Jews”. Last known about Jews in Yemen, to the best of my ability to find online are these two items:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209666 21 March 2016
Secret operation rescues last group of Yemen Jews … 50 chose to remain in Yemen.
...The plane landed [in Israel] early this morning with 19 [passengers] including the heads of the local community.
Rabbi Saliman Dahari, who came with his parents and wife, also brought a Torah scroll dating back to the fifteen or sixteenth century.
Five of the passengers came from Sana'a, while the other fourteen are from the city of Rayda.
Jewish Agency Chair Natan Sharansky said, "...This chapter in the history of one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities is coming to an end, but Yemenite Jewry’s unique, 2,000-year-old contribution ... will continue in the State of Israel."
[Israeli Druze] Deputy Minister for Regional Cooperation Ayoub Kara (Likud), who played a significant role, has also stated: "I am happy to have achieved this very important goal for my Jewish brothers in Yemen to come to Israel. There is no higher purpose than to save lives ...”
The US State Department helped with the project's organization, which took much of the past year.
...The Jewish Agency has rescued about 200 Jews from Yemen over the past few years.
Fifty [are known to] remain in the country, having declined the offer to come to Israel. All live in a closed compound next to the US embassy. A number are elderly and some have relatives who were forced to marry Muslim men...
https://www.monareliefye.org/single-post/2017/05/31/Monareliefyeorg….
MONA —Yemen Organization for Humanitarian Relief and Development
One Heart . One People . One Humanity
Monareliefye.org delivering for the 3rd time food aid baskets to Jewish community’s members in Sana’a
Members of the Yemeni Jewish community received food supplies provided by Mona Relief at a Yemeni Army-protected compound in Sana'a, Yemen.,,,
Tags: food jewish Sana’a Ramadan
Nothing further known...
Readers please hold Yemen in your thoughts…
General News
▓ 4 Jan 2019, Daily Times commentary: Yemen needs help to save its history — Deborah Lehr & Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak, Gulf News [bolding/emphasis added]
Among the many tragedies taking place in the nearly four-year conflict in Yemen – including the thousands of lives lost, the impoverishment to near-starvation of its people and the ruin of its fragile economy – is the plunder of the country’s valuable and precious ancient cultural heritage by organised criminals and violent extremists. This all-too-familiar story underscores an urgent need for the United States Treasury Department to use its existing sanctions regime to close the US art market to Yemeni blood antiquities.
Historically, Yemen was a meeting ground for some of the earliest contacts and trade between East and West and a crossroads of the ancient incense and spice routes. As home to the legendary Queen of Sheba, stories about the treasures to be found in Yemen’s markets and the independence of its people were passed across generations … Much of this rich history survived for millennia, as Yemen is home to four Unesco World Heritage Sites and national museums that house priceless artefacts. While media coverage has closely followed the fighting around some of these historic places and collections, it has sadly ignored that this history is being stripped for sale to foreign buyers.
Yemen has warned the United Nations and the world of this illicit trade, presenting evidence that Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula militants and Al Houthi rebels are taking a page from the playbook of Daesh by arming their cause with the plunder and sale of Yemen’s ancient treasures…..
▓ 3 Jan 2019, AlJazeera Food meant for starving Yemenis seen being sold at a Sana’a marketplace — World Food Programme has accused both Houthis and the Saudi-UAE coalition backed forces of diverting aid in areas under their control.
▓ 3 Jan 2019 WaPo Saudi Attempts to Win Over Locals in Yemen Stir Anger Residents in the east, which has avoided much of the destruction seen elsewhere in war-torn Yemen, denounce Riyadh’s development efforts as ‘occupation’
▓ 2 Jan 2019, UNDispatch Yemen Received More Migrants in 2018 than Europe By: Mark Leon Goldberg
The International Organization for Migration says that nearly 150,000 migrants arrived in war torn Yemen in 2018.
This is despite ongoing conflict, a cholera outbreak and near famine conditions in much of the country.
Perhaps what is most remarkable about this figure is that the number of migrants expected to arrive in Yemen before the end of 2018 far exceeds the number of irregular migrants who have arrived in Europe in 2018, which is 134,000. Deeper still, while the number of migrants to Europe sharply declined between 2017 and 2018, the number of migrants to Yemen increased by 50% compared to 2017.
According to the IOM, the vast majority of migrants are from Ethiopia and they travel to Yemen via smuggling routes across the Red Sea, most from Djibouti. Their ultimate destination is not Yemen, but rather Saudi Arabia where they hope to find gainful employment::
“Located at the cusp of two continents, Yemen historically has been an origin, transit and destination country of migrants. Today, an estimated 92 per cent of its incoming migrants are Ethiopian nationals, with Somalis accounting for the rest. In 2017, an estimated 100,000 migrants reached Yemen.
Migrants reaching Yemen travel first by land, primarily through Djibouti, and eventually undergo perilous boat journeys across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, now one of the busiest maritime migration routes in the world. A smaller number sails from Somalia’s coastline.
Both routes are also among the world’s most “youthful,” in the sense that minors account for an estimated 20 per cent of the migrants. Many are unaccompanied.”
The stories of these migrants are instructive. Last year, Mohammed Abdiker of the IOM penned an essay on this “deadly migration route that the world is ignoring.” ,,,,
▓ Genomic insights into the 2016–2017 cholera epidemic in Yemen , Nature.com, January 2, 2019. From the Abstract:
Yemen is currently experiencing, to our knowledge, the largest cholera epidemic in recent history.
The first cases were declared in September 2016, and over 1.1 million cases and 2,300 deaths have since been reported1.
Here we investigate the phylogenetic relationships, pathogenesis and determinants of antimicrobial resistance by sequencing the genomes of Vibrio cholerae isolates from the epidemic in Yemen and recent isolates from neighbouring regions…
We show that the isolates from Yemen that were collected during the two epidemiological waves of the epidemic1—the first between 28 September 2016 and 23 April 2017 (25,839 suspected cases) and the second beginning on 24 April 2017 (more than 1 million suspected cases)—are V. cholerae serotype Ogawa isolates from a single sublineage of the seventh pandemic V. cholerae O1 El Tor (7PET) lineage [linking] the epidemic in Yemen to global radiations of pandemic V. cholerae … originated from South Asia and that it caused outbreaks in East Africa before appearing in Yemen.
… the isolates from Yemen are susceptible to several antibiotics that are commonly used to treat cholera and to polymyxin B, resistance to which is used as a marker of the El Tor biotype.
[bolding/emphasis added]
▓ 1 January 2019, ozy.com How a Yemen Water Plant Helped Cut Cholera by 92 Percent By Sophia Akram
….Yemen, one of the Arab world’s poorest countries, has been ravaged by war. With on-the-ground reporting still difficult, the death toll from fighting and bombing — currently over 60,000 — is thought to be vastly underestimated. Beyond that, starvation and disease have killed 85,000 children, and cholera alone has cost 2,600 lives.
Since October 2016, Yemen has been in the grips of one of the worst epidemics of cholera seen in modern history [with over] 1.3 million suspected cases reported, and as recently as October 2018 the WHO estimated about 10,000 new cases were added every week. Cholera is caused by a water-borne bacteria, meaning water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programming is essential to stopping its spread. But that means such projects can be effective extremely quickly. In fact:
A $395,000 water treatment plant restoration, along with programs targeting the region’s infrastructure, sent cholera cases in the region plummeting by an estimated 92 percent.
Those figures were taken from the electronic disease early warning system (eDEWS), which showed that in the month of August 2017 there were 15,020 suspected cases of cholera, 59 deaths and 958,668 people thought to be at risk. The plant became fully operational in September 2017, and by January 2018, these numbers had dropped to 164 cholera cases and zero deaths.
Explore inside the restored water plant in Yemen with this 360 VR video…..
▓ 31 Dec 2018, WaPo In Yemen, Iran-aligned rebels tighten their grip through fear and intimidation
▓ 29 Dec 2018, Reuters Yemen's Houthis start redeployment in Hodeidah as part of U.N. deal
▓ 29 Dec 2018, France 24 Houthi rebels cede control of Yemen’s primary port, officials say
▓ 28 Dec 2918 NYT On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen? Child Soldiers From Darfur
▓ 29 Dec 2018, WaPo The U.S. put a Yemeni warlord on a terrorist list. One of its close allies is still arming him.
▓ 28 Dec, 2018 PBS video report Fighting, starvation and disease yield grim crisis in Yemen
▓ 28 Dec 2018 ForeignPolicy.com The Year That Washington Finally Cared About Yemen
▓ 26 Dec 2018, WDAM7, Moselle, MS by AHMED AL-HAJ - UN team hold meeting in Yemen port city over cease-fire ….
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▓ 8 Dec 2018 The Arab Weekly Yemen peace talks begin but major hurdles remain.“The Saudi-led coalition has encircled the Red Sea port city, which it says ... final negotiation phase,” said Yemeni writer Hani Salem Masshour.”
LONDON - The start of UN-led peace talks in Sweden between warring sides in Yemen was welcomed internationally but major hurdles remain to ending the nearly 4-year conflict.
The Stockholm talks opened as an all-out battle for the strategic rebel-held port of Hodeidah looms. The Saudi-led coalition has encircled the Red Sea port city, which it says is a major source of arms for the Iran-backed Houthis.
A big divide separates the two camps. The fate of the city and its port is one of the main issues on the talks’ agenda. Other major points include reopening the main airport in Sana’a, shoring up the Central Bank of Yemen and de-escalating tensions while building confidence for future negotiations.
Few observers say the current series of talks could result in a breakthrough towards peace in Yemen. However, some have said international pressure could lead to a broader framework for additional meetings.
“The US ‘big stick’ approach could maybe force both Yemeni parties to reach minimum understandings in the current talks to pave the way for the final negotiation phase,” said Yemeni writer Hani Salem Masshour.
The biggest stumbling block, however, could be the Houthi rebels’ interest in short-term battlefield gains over a lasting solution….
A heartfelt wish of shabbat shalom, for all in need.
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