Afghanistan’s last living Jew finally leaving for Israel – Zabulon Simantov, 61, stayed behind in Kabul when family made aliya in 1998, in order to look after country’s sole remaining synagogue; I’m going to watch TV in Israel to find out what’s going to happen in Afghanistan,’ he says | ynetnews

Four years after Iran’s hijab protests: ‘The regime uses women for propaganda – with pink weapons’ – At the Women of the State conference, Iran experts Dr. Tamar Eilam Gindin and Hanna Jahanforooz described worsening conditions for women under the ayatollahs, saying the protest is about human rights and detainees were forced into pro-regime marches without hijabs | ynetglobal