Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit has asked culture officials to review a project to build a Jewish history museum in Cairo.
The proposal for the museum, which includes the restoration of Jewish artifacts and other historical objects, was presented to Gheit by an “American Jewish rabbi”.
Cairo’s ancient Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue is the proposed site for the museum, while money for its construction as well as the restoration work could be raised through an international fund-raising campaign, the report said.
Egypt’s Jewish community numbers around 500 people compared to the between 75,000 and 100,000 who lived in the country before the state of Israel was formed in in 1948.
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