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Avi Kumar

Avi Kumar

Avi Kumar is a Sri Lanka native based in the United Arab Emirates who writes on global Jewish topics and the Holocaust and speaks 11 languages.

Asked how it feels to be a nonagenarian Israel Defense Forces reservist in action, Ezra Yakhin told JNS that “it is very important for us to fight for our country. I feel excellent.”
“This year we witnessed the largest such gathering in the history of the UAE,” Rabbi Levi Duchman, the first rabbi to serve in the country, told JNS. He added, “In our prayers, we kept in mind the ongoing peace and prosperity of the UAE.”
The Cochin Jews claim to be the oldest Diaspora group outside the Middle East.
“Of course, I’m a true Israeli. I love surfing in the morning, I speak Hebrew, I was born and raised here,” says Tongi Noyan.