Professor Yosef Yuval Tobi

Professor Yosef Yuval Tobi is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and History at Haifa University

How Iran radicalised Yemen’s most tolerant tribe

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My family left Yemen for Israel in 1935, at a time when tens of thousands of Jews were still living in the country. Their journey was particularly noteworthy because a member of my family was riding on a camel. My pregnant mother sat in the saddle, while my father and brother walked beside her. For centuries