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

market town A market town is a Human settlement, 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 marketplace, market; this distinguished it from a village or ...

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 Gove ...

, and north of

Amran Amran may refer to: *'Amran Governorate, Yemen *'Amran (Arabic: عمران) small city in western central Yemen, capital of the 'Amran Governorate * Amran, Gujarat, a village in Jamnagar district, Gujarat, India *Amran District, Yemen People with ...

, 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 an ...

.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 Yemenite Jews or Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from ''Yehudei Teman''; ar, اليهود اليمنيون) are those Jews who live, or once lived, in Yemen, and their descendants maintaining their customs. Between June 1949 and September 1950, the ...

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, 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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