http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/His-last-words-before-being-shot-and-killed-were-I-will-remain-a-Jew-453789
“My eight siblings and I were born and raised in the Jewish tradition in
the city of Raydah in Yemen. My father was dedicated to his family and
his community and taught us to treat others with kindness and to love
the Torah. One bright day, he went out to shop for Shabbat and never
returned,” said Nahari's sixteen-year-old daughter, who shared the story
of her father's murder in Yemen in 2008, when she was only nine years
old.
“A stranger accosted my father and demanded that he convert
to Islam and abandon his Jewish faith. My father refused and responded
in his characteristically gentle way, ‘I will remain a Jew and you will
remain a Muslim.’ The man pulled out a gun and shot my father several
times. Our family as I knew it no longer existed. Our lives were
shattered and full of fear. The murderer’s family threatened us, and
hatred of Jews increased. In 2009, three of my siblings and I fled to
Israel with the assistance of The Jewish Agency, and in 2012 we were
reunited with our mother and smallest siblings, who also made Aliyah,”
she said.
"The entire Nahari family made Aliyah after their father’s murder and
was successfully integrated into Israeli society. The final 19 Jews of
Raydah made Aliyah this year, along with some 30,000 Jews from around
the world and 60,000 Jewish young people who have participated in Israel
experience programs. We will continue to strengthen the connection
between Jews and Israel around the world in order to ensure that the
final words of Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl and Jewish teacher Moshe
Ya’ish Nahari - ‘we are Jews and we will remain Jews’ - live on.”
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