(NEWS) Lebanon: Restoration Of Beirut’s Only Synagogue

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"Restoration of Beirut’s only synagogue will be completed in October and religious services will be held there in 2011 for the first time in more than three decades, the leader of the country’s Jewish community said.

'We started from zero with this project and now we hope with the restoration we will be able to once again rebuild a community in Lebanon,' Isaac Arazi, 67, said June 24 in an interview in Beirut.

About 100 Jews now live permanently in Lebanon, while there are some 1,900 living abroad who still own property in the country and visit regularly, according to Arazi, who owns a food-machinery business. In the mid-1960s, there were as many as 22,000 Lebanese Jews, he said."



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