61-year-old Zabulon SimaTs, which for more than ten years is the last Jew in Afghanistan, refused to leave Kabul, despite all the efforts that Jewish organizations and individual activists are attached to his salvation.
One of these figures, writes the edition of Times of Israel, became Moshe Margaretin – a native of Williamsburg, New York, where the large community of Hasidov lives. Mysray Moshe, which he laid on himself – the salvation of Jews from those places where they threaten danger.
Margaretin paid the Motion of Cahane, an Israeli-American businessman who took people from the Syrian war, and asked him to save Simanthov, but he failed. The fact is that Simtants did not give a “divorce letter” for many years to his wife living in Israel, and today it is afraid to face the legal system of the Jewish state, which provides for punishment for such a refusal, writes Russian-speaking Israeli edition “Details”
The wife of Simantova and their two daughters live in Israel since 1998. He himself remained in his native Afghanistan, where he supported the only synagogue in Kabul.
Simtov, the seller of carpets and jewelry, was born in Afghan herata. Later he moved to Kabul, fled to Tajikistan in 1992, and then returned to Afghanistan. Without him, the synagogue will close, putting the end of the epoch of Jewish life in Afghanistan, notes the edition.