BREAKING: We are pleased to report that the last Jew in Zevulun, Afghanistan, is our international reporter Shloim. @chusidel flew to Kabul to save from #taliban As reported in this week’s issue@Ami_Magazine, is now safe and on its way to the United States. pic.twitter.com/nHwpJKNSeg— Friends Magazine (@Ami_Magazine) September 6, 2021
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Journalist Shloim Zionas reportedly flew to Kabul to assist Simantov in his departure from Afghanistan.
According to journalist Zvika Klein, Simantov had previously claimed that he would not leave Afghanistan, and was “not interested” in moving to the United States.
*Correction: He had the opportunity to move to America, but was not interested
— Zvika Klein (@ZvikaKlein) August 17, 2021
He said, “I will not leave my house. If I had gone, there would have been no one to maintain the synagogue.”
Simantov faced backlash after it emerged that he was refusing his wife. Get, a Jewish divorce document, for many years.
Attempts have been made to assist his Israeli wife over the years, although he has yet to agree to divorce her. Rabbi Pinchus Goldschmidt, the chief rabbi of Moscow, wrote on Twitter that he had offered to go to Afghanistan to seek a divorce but Simantov refused.
Simcha Pasco contributed to this report