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(Jewish Group) 160-year Jewish cemetery in Yemen is being restored helped by breakaway government
160-year Jewish cemetery in Yemen is being restored with help from breakaway government factionOne of the political factions that has been fighting for power in Yemen has joined an effort to restore a 160-year-old Jewish cemetery in the southern port city of Aden.
A local journalist covering the restoration confirmed the news to the Israeli Kan broadcaster in a report that aired on Sunday, The Times of Israel reported.
Despite a truce in the country’s ongoing civil war that was reached in April, Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council (STC), led by the party’s president, General Aidarus Qassem Abdulaziz al-Zoubaidi, wants independence for South Yemen, which was its own state from 1967 to 1990. The STC, which is now in control of Aden, has become involved in the project after efforts to renovate the site were first led by volunteer organizations.
A Yemeni official told Kan that the renovation is a “message to all Aden residents that Aden is a city of peace and that we will not accept any harm to any holy site,” The Times of Israel reported.
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