The “Ynet” website said: Al-Abri said that the “Jewish Agency did not receive any contact from any Jewish entity from Syria or their relatives,” against the backdrop of the fall of the Assad regime that the country witnessed.
The presence of Israeli Jews was not apparent in Syria as a community
The Israeli website indicated that there was no organized Jewish community in Syria for many years, and a small number of individual Jews remained in Syria, and it is difficult It is very important to estimate their number because they are not organized, and of course they are afraid to identify themselves as Jews, noting that the few details that are known about them are mainly through their relatives who have been in Israel, the United States, and Mexico for many years.. According to estimates, he lives in Syria. Only between 20 and 30 Jews.
The Israeli demographer Sergio Della Pergola estimated the number of Jews in Syria and Lebanon at about one hundred, but this is just an estimate.
And now, after the overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria, There is a question that arises: what will happen to these Jews and will they benefit from the protection of the new government in Damascus?
A source familiar with the details said: “No one has been in contact with them on the phone.” Absolutely.
The Jews did not identify themselves as Yahweh, and we do not even know whether they had contact with their families outside Syria, so, there is no accurate estimate of their number.
This number is just a hypothesis, based on partial information from families outside Syria, and it is not clear to us what their situation is because, as we mentioned, there is no information either from them or from their relatives.
In August 2019, the BP network published C" A report on the Jews of Syria, in which it claimed that out of 30,000 Syrian Jews, only 15 or 20 remained.
The report included documents from the Jewish quarter in Damascus, where only a small number of residents remained. They decided not to immigrate to Israel.
According to the report, the number of Jews in Syria in the 1940s reached about 30 thousand, and after the War of Independence, about 5 thousand of them immigrated to Israel.
Most of the homes they left behind have been converted into hotels, restaurants and art galleries.
According to estimates, the report stated that it is not at all certain that there are 10 men who can complete Minyan for prayer in the synagogue.
