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A Jewish man, Levi Marhabi, is being held hostage by Yemen’s Houthi rebels

JL;DR SUMMARY Levi Marhabi, a Jewish man, remains imprisoned by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen despite a court order for his release, highlighting the severe persecution of Yemen's Jewish minority. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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U.S. Foreign PolicyIranHuman RightsHouthi RebelsDiplomacyReligious PersecutionYemen ConflictLevi MarhabiJewish Community In YemenTorah Smuggling

Places mentioned

Sanaa, Amanat Al Asimah, Yemen
"Nine-year-old Salim Moussa reads the Torah with Yusuf Moussa Salim inside a protected compound in Sanaa named Tourist City on January 20, 2010, in Sanaa, Yemen."
Raydah, Amran, Yemen
"Yemeni Muslim and Jewish (R and 2nd L) guests attend the wedding party of 19-year-old Yemeni Jew, Yussef Saeed Hamdi (not in picture), in the village of Raydah in Yemens Amran province, 70 kms north of Sanaa, on June 15, 2008."
Beersheba, Southern District, Israel
"An elderly Yemeni Jew arrives at an immigration centre in the Israeli city of Beersheba on March 21, 2016 following a secret rescue operation to evacuate a group of 19 Jews from war-torn Yemen to Israel."

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