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{{Other uses|Raidah (disambiguation){{!}}Raidah}}
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'''Raydah''' ({{langx|ar|ريدة}}; sometimes transliterated '''Raidah''' or '''al-Raidah''') is a large [[market town]] located {{convert|49|km}} north of [[Sana'a]], and {{convert|11|miles|km}} north of [[`Amran|Amran]], in northwestern [[Yemen]].<ref name=crs>Sharp, Jeremy M. [https://web.archive.org/web/20171201031212/http://opencrs.com/getfile.php?rid=80424 Yemen: Background and U.S. Relations] (RL34170, PDF). [[Congressional Research Service]] (January 22, 2009). {{PD-notice}}</ref>

== Jewish community ==

In previous years, before most [[Yemeni Jews]] emigrated, the ''Suq al-yahud'' or Jewish market was held here.<ref>Vogel, Dieter. ''Yemen'', Insight Guides, 1997. pg. 197. {{ISBN|962-421-091-8}}</ref>

As of 2009, the Jewish community numbered 266 persons,<ref name=YO2>Arrabyee, Nasser. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090306002531/http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10015885.html Blood money for Killing Yemeni Jew]}}, ''Yemen Observer'', 03-03-2009. Retrieved on 2009-03-08.</ref> and operated three synagogues and two schools.<ref>[http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/02/19/66775.html Fear grips Yemen's Jewish minority after murder], ''AlArabiya.net'', 19-02-2009. Retrieved on 2009-03-08.</ref> However, during the 2008-09 [[Gaza War (2008–09)|Gaza War]], tensions with local Muslims increased and an Islamic extremist murdered a Jewish teacher and kosher butcher, [[Moshe Ya'ish al-Nahari]], after demanding he convert to Islam. The last time an incident of this kind had occurred in Raydah was in 1986, when two Jews were killed. Following Nahari's murder, the Jewish community expressed how vulnerable they felt, and complained that they had been harassed and threatened by extremists. They requested assistance from the government. In June 2009, 16 [[Yemeni Jews|Jewish]] families who resided in the town left for Israel.<ref>[http://www.aurora-israel.co.il/articulos/israel/14/22300 Olim from Yemen arrive to Israel (in Spanish)]. Aurora Digital</ref> Nahari's wife and nine children also moved to Israel.

In 2016, amid the [[Yemeni civil war (2014–present)|Yemeni civil war]], the Israeli government launched a covert operation to airlift 19 Jews from Raydah to Israel, effectively marking the end of the town's Jewish community.<ref>{{cite news |title=Israel flies in 19 Yemeni Jews, ending immigration mission |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-israel-idUSKCN0WN0YP/ |access-date=19 November 2023 |agency=Reuters |date=21 March 2016}}</ref> Only one family elected to remain in Raydah.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Almosawa |first1=Shuaib |title=Last Jewish family in Raydah: We wish we could stay, but… |url=https://www.yemenpeaceproject.org/blog-x/blogpost/analysis-commentary/last-jewish-family |website=Yemen Peace Project |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>

==Hospital==

Raydah is home to a small hospital, funded by [[Save the Children]]. However, funding cuts and the ongoing civil war have reduced the hospital's ability to treat patients.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Al-Mujahed |first1=Ali |last2=Raghavan |first2=Sudarsan |title=At a Yemen hospital racked by U.S. funding cuts, children are dying of hunger |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/yemen-children-humanitarian-crisis/2021/01/09/a637482c-3338-11eb-afe6-e4dbee9689f8_story.html |access-date=19 November 2023 |work=Washington Post |date=9 January 2021}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Moshe Ya'ish al-Nahari]]

==References==
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[[Category:Populated places in 'Amran Governorate]]
[[Category:Jews and Judaism in Yemen]]
[[Category:Orthodox Jewish communities]]
[[Category:Historic Jewish communities in Asia]]
[[Category:Towns in Yemen]]

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