Old Yemenite Synagogue (Silwan)

The Old Yemenite Synagogue (officially known as Beit Knesset Ohel Shlomo) is a restored synagogue[1] from the nineteenth century Yemenite Village Kfar Hashiloach (Hebrew: כפר השילוח‎) neighborhood in the Jerusalem district of Silwan.[2]

In the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, the Yemenite community was removed from Silwan by the Welfare Bureau of the Va'ad Leumi into the Jewish Quarter as security conditions for Jews worsened.[3] and in 1938, the remaining Yemenite Jews in Silwan were evacuated by the Jewish Community Council on the advice of the police.[4][5] According to documents in the custodian office and real estate and project advancement expert Edmund Levy, the buildings of the Yemenite Jews were occupied by Arab families without registering ownership.[6][7]

In May, 2015 Ateret Cohanim, a Jewish group that had established legal ownership of the old synagogue, moved into the building.[8][9] Local residents threw rocks at the activists as they moved in.[8]

References
  1. The Yemenite Village
  2. No balm in Gilead: a personal retrospective of mandate days in Palestine, Sylva M. Gelber, McGill-Queen's Press, 1989, p. 88-89.
  3. Sylva M. Gelber, No balm in Gilead: a personal retrospective of mandate days in Palestine, Carleton University/McGill University Press 1989 pp. 56,88.
  4. Shragai, Nadav (January 4, 2004). "11 Jewish families move into J'lem neighborhood of Silwan". Haaretz.
  5. Palestine Post, August 15, 1938, p. 2
  6. Documents show Arabs illegally obtained Jewish homes in Silwan, Bill Hutman, Jerusalem Post. Retrieved October 14, 2010.
  7. WHO OWNS THE LAND?, Gail Lichtman, Jerusalem Post. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
  8. Jaskow, Rahel (6 May 2015). "Jewish activists move into building in Arab Jerusalem neighborhood Structure in Silwan was once the synagogue of a village built there for Yemenite immigrants in the 1880s, NGO claims". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  9. Ben-Gedalyahu, Tzvi (7 May 2015). "Jews Move into Former Yemenite Synagogue in Silwan Valley". The Jewish Press. Retrieved 8 May 2015.

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