Zablon Simintov

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Zablon Simintov or Zebulon Simentov (Dari/Pashto: زابلون سیمینتوف; Hebrew: זבולון סימן-טוב; born 1959) is an Afghan Jewish former carpet trader and restaurateur. Between 2005 and his evacuation from the country in 2021, he was widely believed to be the only Jew still living in Afghanistan. He was also the caretaker of and lived in the Kabul synagogue, the only synagogue in the Afghan capital city Kabul. On 7 September 2021, shortly after the Taliban takeover, he left Afghanistan with the help of a private security company that had been organized by Israeli-American businessman Mordechai Kahana and American rabbi Moshe Margaretten from the Tzedek Association.

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