Yibir tribe: Israel’s recognition of Somaliland is traceable to the lost and forgotten Jews inside Horn of Africa’s Jewish past
Situated along the strategic Gulf of Aden, Somaliland offers Israel a critical diplomatic foothold in the Horn of Africa. But beyond ports, shipping lanes and intelligence cooperation lies another, largely overlooked dimension of this emerging relationship: Jewish history.
Buried faith: Temple beneath the mosque and why Jews could not establish State of Israel in western Kenya
What was in the nineteenth century the Luhyia Kingdom (also known as Wanga Kingdom) had been carved out for Jews, but this was not to be as resettling in western Kenya would have meant the community that is believed the descendants of Jesus Christ being stripped of their spiritual, cultural and biological attachment to their motherland.