Reports of a shift in Yemen’s policy toward its Jews are exaggerated, according to people in New York familiar with the situation there.
The Associated Press this week quoted a Yemeni government official as saying Yemen has begun allowing members of its Jewish community to emigrate.
In fact, Yemen has been allowing Jewish emigration for well over a year, reflecting a general opening toward the West in the wake of the unification of the separate northern and southern Yemen states in 1990.
About 500 Yemeni Jews have left the country since then, most moving to Israel. About 500 Jews remain in Yemen.
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