Raydah (sometimes transliterated Raidah or al-Raidah) is a large

market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rural ...

located north of

Sana'a Sanaa ( ar, صَنْعَاء, ' , Yemeni Arabic: ; Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩬𐩲𐩥 ''Ṣnʿw''), also spelled Sana'a or Sana, is the capital and largest city in Yemen and the centre of Sanaa Governorate. The city is not part of the Gover ...

, and north of Amran, in northwestern

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the north and Oman to the northeast and ...

.Sharp, Jeremy M
Yemen: Background and U.S. Relations
(RL34170, PDF).

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(January 22, 2009). In previous years, before most Yemeni Jews emigrated, the ''Suq al-yahud'' or Jewish market was held here. In 2009, the Jewish community numbered 266 persons.Arrabyee, Nasser
Blood money for Killing Yemeni Jew
''Yemen Observer'', 03-03-2009. Retrieved on 2009-03-08. The community operates three synagogues and two schools. During the Gaza War tensions with local Muslims increased and an Islamic extremist murdered a Jewish teacher and kosher butcher,

Moshe Ya'ish al-Nahari Moshe Ya'ish al-Nahari ( he, משה יעיש אל נהרי ar, موشيه يعيش النهاري born 1978 – 11 December 2008) was a Yemeni Jewish Hebrew teacher and kosher butcher in Raydah, Yemen, who was murdered by a Yemeni Muslim who acco ...

, after demanding he convert to Islam. The last time an incident of this kind occurred in Raydah was in 1986 when two Jews were killed. Following Nahari's murder, the Jewish community expressed how vulnerable they felt, and complained that they had been harassed and threatened by extremists. They requested assistance from the government. In June 2009, 16

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

families who resided in the town left for Israel.Olim from Yemen arrive to Israel (in Spanish)
Aurora Digital Nahari's wife and nine children also moved to Israel.

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Populated places in 'Amran Governorate Jews and Judaism in Yemen Orthodox Jewish communities Historic Jewish communities in Asia {{Yemen-geo-stub

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