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Afghanistan’s Last Jew’s Get Arranged By Sydney Beis Din

Afghanistan’s last Jew, Zebulon Simentov (AP Photo/David Goldman)

As YWN reported, Afghanistan’s last Jew, Zebulon Simentov, who was evacuated from Afghanistan earlier this month, granted a get to his wife in New York on Erev Yom Kippur. Further details about the get were revealed earlier this week.

According to a Makor Rishon report, the get process was overseen by the Sydney Beis Din, headed by Senior Dayan Rav Yehoram Ulman. The proceedings were conducted via Zoom.

A screenshot published on Twitter by Makor Rishon journalist Zvika Klein on Twitter shows Rav Ulman (bottom left); Rav Mendy Chitrik, Chabad shaliach and Rav of the Ashkenazi Jewish community in Turkey and chairman of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States (top left); Israeli-American businessman Moti Kahana who arranged Simentov’s evacuation and convinced him to grant his wife a get (top right); and Simentov (bottom right).

Kahana also posted a screenshot of the Zoom call, with the signed document featured instead of Simentov. “Thank you to all the Rabbanim – from Australia to Turkey to New York. Mazal Tov and Shana Tova.”

Simentov’s estranged wife and his two daughters live in Israel, where they have resided since 1998.

Rav Yehoram Ulman. (Photo:
By Danceinlelov – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)



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