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As Rasela Mizrahi becomes a hero to some on the right, others on the left unleash the biggest post-Holocaust torrent of hatred ever seen by the country's Jewish community of 200 ....
May 31, 2021 11:48 am Rashela Mizrahi speaks to a colleague during a cabinet meeting in Skopje, North Macedonia, Jan. 14, 2020. (Courtesy of the Parliament of North Macedonia) Advertisement (JTA) Politics was supposed to be a very brief interlude in Rashela Mizrahi’s career as a scientist. A 39-year-old Jewish fertility researcher from North Macedonia, she was appointed last year to serve for 100 days as the temporary minister of labor in her Balkan country, situated north of Greece. She was deemed a good nonpartisan pick to serve as a placeholder ahead of elections. “I had zero interest in politics,” Mizrahi told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “But I thought it’d send a good message for women. Plus, like any Jewish daughter, I wanted to make my parents proud.” ....
Rashela was born and raised in Skopje, Macedonia’s capital but her family roots are from Toledo, Spain. In an interview with European Jewish Press, Rashela Mizrahi, an important member of the Jewish community of Macedonia and the country’s first-ever Jewish government member, reported the ‘’political’’ antisemitic abuses she faced when she was fired from the cabinet last year after she appeared at a press conference with signs of the country’s previous name, Macedonia. By Ethan Bergman Edited by Yossi Lempkowicz The Republic of North Macedonia, a small country located in southeast Europe, which gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of former Yugoslavia, is home to about 200 Jews who are maintaining ties with all Jewish communities in this region, including the ones in Belgrade, Serbia, and Thessaloniki, Greece. ....