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                                                                                  candle7.gif  R’ Moshe Al-Nahari HY”D                                       

Brutal Murder of R’ Moshe Al-Nahari HY”D

December 11, 2008
(UPDATED) Early Thursday morning, the sad news of the murder of a former Talmid of Satmar, R’ Moshe Al-Nahari HY”D who had recently returned to his home in Yemen, reached NY.

Credible sources tell YWN that although the motive behind the murder is unknown, one suspect has reportedly been taken into custody. Leading Satmar Askonim in Williamsburg are in contact with the US Embassy and the US State Department, and are gathering information, and assisting the family. Speculation is that the murder involves the growing conflict between the Muslim & Jewish community in the area.

R’ Moshe Al-Nahari was an active “Osek Bitzarchei Tzibur”, and community activist in Yemen, and worker tirelessly during his time in the USA to help the isolated Jewish community which currently remains in Yemen.

Sources tell YWN that the remaining Jews in Yemen are “scared for their lives”, and Askanim are contemplating on how to handle the situation.

He leaves behind a wife and nine sons R”L.

UNITED TALMUDICAL SEMINARY DECRIES MURDER OF ITS FORMER STUDENT

Rabbi Masha Al-Nahari was a leader in the town of Raidah in Yemen.  Where he saw a need, he learned to address it.  He led prayer services, taught the Jewish youth and traveled to Israel to learn how to become a Shochet so that he could supply the community with Kosher meat.  In an effort to be able to provide the most to his students,  he spent time abroad studying, then returned home to Yemen to be able to share his new-found knowledge.  He was everything that makes UTS proud of its students.

Today, the community of Raidah is burying this young man.  His life was cut short by a bullet.  Jewish blood is cheap in Yemen.  There is no outcry.

In a turbulent time for the Yemen community, at a time where the US Consulate has curtailed services there, close watch must be made to the safety and welfare of the Jewish community there.  UTS decries this murder, and urges the world not to remain silent.  Allowing more Jews to be murdered just for their faith and religious practice sends a message that it is open season against the Jews.  An outpouring of outrage against this murder might keep the Jews of Yemen from annihilation. 

Boruch Dayan Emmes….

(Yehuda Drudgestein - YWN)


 

 

15 Comments »

  1. Rachmana Litzlan! Hashem Yerachem! We are suffering unspeakable torture at the hands of Yishmael y”s.

    Comment by DaasTorahWtchdg — December 11, 2008 @ 1:37 pm

  2. I don’t think that he left over a wife and son R”L.
    I think that he was murdered R”L.
    Anyway, may the family have a nechama and we should not hear any more tzaros.

    Comment by ayin tov — December 11, 2008 @ 1:58 pm

  3. “An outpouring of outrage against this murder might keep the Jews of Yemen from annihilation”.

    How about any mention of “an outpouring of prayer and tehillim”?! How can it be that a staff-member of YWN should write in such a way that is totally vis-a-vis daas torah?

    An apology and correction would be appreciated.

    Comment by DaasTorahWtchdg — December 11, 2008 @ 2:38 pm

  4. Yemen community get up and leave.
    They deluded themselves with the idea that the Moslems there are peace loving and not anti-Jewish (Israel, the same). The community is tiny and the hourglass is up to the tinest grain of sand.

    Comment by zionflag — December 11, 2008 @ 2:41 pm

  5. #3 - it’s called “Zionism”. It tells people to believe in “kochi ve-otzem yadi” instead of on the Aibershter.

    Comment by Daniel Breslauer — December 11, 2008 @ 2:59 pm

  6. #4 are they able to leave?

    Comment by eli lev — December 11, 2008 @ 3:51 pm

  7. #4,
    If they had left earlier, the tziyonim would have cut their payos off, and shmad them - like they did to the other helige Teimonim.

    Comment by Joseph — December 11, 2008 @ 9:00 pm

  8. See Ben Hecht’s book Perfidy for a lot of the details of what the secularists did to these simple Jews. In fact, a primary reason they wanted to bring them to Israel is assumed to be in order to increase the secular vote, and this is why they wanted them to forget Shabbos and tradition. They figured the Teimanim (Yemenite Jews) would be relatively easy to forcefully assimilate - and then the secularists would be able to stay in power, despite the increasingly anti-secularists votes from an increasing influx of Jews to Israel from churban Europe and elsewhere. There are even some videos online showing how Israel used the Yemenite Jews for medical experiments. Hashem yerachem.

    Comment by lastword — December 11, 2008 @ 11:44 pm

  9. #7 had they listened to the Zionists rather than
    the Satmar/Neturei Karta, he would have been alive and well… in Israel.

    Comment by evbazarov — December 12, 2008 @ 2:46 am

  10. #7 grow up.
    There is enough support system in Israel to absorb these olim in Bnei Brak/Eldad/Betar/Arad. The choice is ‘alive & gratitue to Israel for saving us’ or ‘death and idealogy’. Its a choice that has to be made.

    Comment by sayitlikeitis — December 12, 2008 @ 1:00 pm

  11. I was quite surprised to read this item, as I had thought that there were only some elderly Jews left in Yemen.
    Any further information on this community would be appreciated and welcomed.
    Thank you.
    David Pinto
    Montreal, Canada

    Comment by David Pinto — December 12, 2008 @ 1:31 pm

  12. If they had listened to the zionists yms, they would have been shmad - like the zionists did to the other Yidden from Yemen. Satmar is literally saving their lives.

    Comment by Joseph — December 12, 2008 @ 2:26 pm

  13. “My Footsteps Echo” by Rabbi Yacov Sapir, written 150 years ago, gives us a true glimpse into the glorious Yemenite mesorah that was lost 60 years ago!

    Comment by G123 — December 15, 2008 @ 1:56 pm

  14. The story is incorrect. Nahari leaves behind a wife and nine children. I was a guest in his home this summer in Yemen. He is caring for his sick father. He was a great man. Hashem yinkom damo.

    Comment by shlomo2000 — December 21, 2008 @ 2:58 am

  15. Please contact me whoever was a guest this summer in Yosef Naharis House. I was there to in February.

    Comment by SHIMEN ICZKOVITS — December 22, 2008 @ 6:15 pm


Brutal Murder of R' Moshe Al-Nahari HY"D

Early Thursday morning, the sad news of the murder of a former Talmid of Satmar, R' Moshe Al-Nahari HY"D who had recently returned to his home in Yemen, reached NY.

Credible sources tell YWN that although the motive behind the murder is unknown, one suspect has reportedly been taken into custody. Leading Satmar Askonim in Williamsburg are in contact with the US Embassy and the US State Department, and are gathering information, and assisting the family. Speculation is that the murder involves the growing conflict between the Muslim & Jewish community in the area.

R' Moshe Al-Nahari was an active "Osek Bitzarchei Tzibur", and community activist in Yemen, and worker tirelessly during his time in the USA to help the isolated Jewish community which currently remains in Yemen.

Sources tell YWN that the remaining Jews in Yemen are "scared for their lives", and Askanim are contemplating on how to handle the situation.

He leaves behind a wife and son R"L.

Boruch Dayan Emmes....

Further details on this story will be forthcoming.

(Yehuda Drudgestein - YWN)

 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/article.php?p=27081

 

Thursday, December 11

R' Moshe Al-Nahari Murdered in Yemen

 
Eretz Yisroel: Yeminites are in shock as a young and upcoming leader of Yemen's small remaining Jewish community, was murdered late last night. R' Moshe Al-Nahari HY"D, recently returned home to Yemen and was murdered by a Muslim. He visit Kiryas Yoel many times as a recipient and liaison for the Vaad Hatzolas Yehudei Teiman in Kiryas Yoel. He was stabbed by a arab. Details of the killing are currently not clear. Askanim are working to release the body without Bizoyen Hamais.

Update: 1 arrest has been made. He was a Satmar Talmid. Satmar
 
The Yemeni Jews plight

 
Dr. Mohammed Al-Qadhi

 

 


 

Throughout history, Muslims and Jews in Yemen have lived in harmony. Jews for the most part have found Muslim Yemenis tolerant and lived in harmony with their neighbors. They have preserved their tradition as well as religious conventions with freedom.

Now, the situation has begun to change. The recent attacks against the Jews in Raidah and Kharef in Ammran province and the murder of Moshe al-Nahari some days ago at the hands of a former military and previously the forcing of the Jews in Sa'ada last year to leave their houses demonstrate this ordeal of these people.

Last week, I went to Raidah and Kharef to report on the murder of al-Nahari and by accident, I found that the house of Masha Yahia and others were attacked by a hand grenade by unidentified people while the Jews were sleeping. I could see the moments of fear and awe in the faces of these people who could not explain their plight to journalists in the presence of security men. The father of Moshe said Jews used to live in peace with their Muslim neighbors, but since the murder of his son, they no longer feel secure in Rydah. He said they did not know the killer before. The murderer was said to have some psychological problems. But, his Moshe's father argument is that "Why is he allowed to carry a gun if he is crazy?" He is completely right. It is only in Yemen where crazy people can carry guns.

Police officers at the site of the bomb explosion that left no casualties said they were looking into the incident and would act on the Jewish community's suggestion and arrest any people the Jews suspect might be behind the attack. That is fine but it is not enough to protect these people from attacks and other forms of harassments.

Following these attacks, the president reportedly suggested after meeting with Jewish community representatives to relocate the Jews of Ammran to the capital Sana'a.

Previously, the government relocated the Jews who were forced by al-Houthi supporters in Sa'ada to quit their houses to the tourist city in Sana'a. Some 65 Jews now live in this city where the entrance and exit is controlled by police which makes life for typical Yemeni Jews who lived in the countryside feel like they are in jail.

Some of the Jews who moved from Sa'ada to Sana'a feel they are secured and that they will never think of going back to Sa'ada again. However, their relocation did not sort out all their problems; they have complained they just received a little amount of money mounting to $25 per person per month. They want to go back to their work; they want the government support to help them reopen workshops to ear their living.

But, why should these people leave their houses? I believe it is the responsibility of the government to protect them for they are Yemeni citizens. These guys have refused all allurements to migrate to Israel because they love their home country and they should not be rewarded by relocation which will not hit the nail on the head for what we need is tolerance.

Otherwise, they will face in Sana'a the same attacks they have been facing in their home villages. Or does this mean the government exists only in Sana'a and therefore, will be able to protect them by putting them in a walled housing complex?

The government should address the culture of fanaticism and hatred that is growing fast in our country. I understand that not all the people in Ammran or Sa'ada or elsewhere are not against the Jews. Some Muslims in Ammran talked to me nicely about Moshe. However, these incidents demonstrate there is a problem that needs addressed.