Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Monday in Jerusalem with a group of Yemenite Jews who immigrated to Israel in recent days in a covert Jewish Agency operation. One of the immigrants, 50-year-old Rabbi Sliman Yaakov Dahari, brought with him an 800-year-old Torah scroll. "I don't think there is another scroll like this one in the world," Dahari said. "This scroll is sacred to us and it was going to go wherever I went." On Monday, Netanyahu and a young immigrant read from the Torah scroll together. "Welcome to Jerusalem, to the Land of Israel," Netanyahu told the newcomers. "I am very excited to see you here. It is moving that you know to read from the Torah. This is the basis. For many years, we have thought about bringing you and with God's help it happened."
Netanyahu welcomes Jews secretly brought to Israel from Yemen
PM Benjamin Netanyahu meets in Jerusalem with a group of Yemenite Jews who immigrated to Israel in recent days in a covert Jewish Agency operation • "I'm excited to see you here," he says, before reading from 800-year-old Torah scroll brought from Yemen.
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