Recently I gave a speech on the House floor about the Tzedek Association, a Jewish national organization, and their excellent work on getting refugees out of Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan Jew eyes exit as Taliban returns
AFP, KABUL
For decades, Zebulon Simentov refused to leave Afghanistan surviving a Soviet invasion, deadly civil war, brutal rule by the Taliban and the US-led occupation of his homeland.
Enough is enough for Afghanistan’s last Jew, and the prospect of the Taliban’s return has him preparing to say goodbye.
“Why should I stay? They call me an infidel,” Simentov said at Kabul’s only synagogue, housed in an old building in the center of the Afghan capital.
“I’m the last, the only Jew in Afghanistan. It could get worse for me here. I have decided to leave for Israel if the Taliban returns,” he said.