55-years after an Arab abducted her, Jewish woman finally coming home

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By Stan Goodenough
June 12, 2008

In a moving story reported in the Israeli press Thursday, an Iraqi Jewess kidnapped from her home 55 years ago, finally escaped and is making her way to Israel, where she will join the surviving members of her immediate family.

According to Ynetnews, Hannah Menashe was 21-years old, already married to a Jewish man, and on the verge of making aliyah (immigrating to Israel) with her parents and seven siblings, when an Arab neighbor abducted her and she "disappeared off the face of the earth."

The kidnapper, who reportedly knew of the family's imminent departure, had taken a fancy to Menashe and wanted to keep her for himself.

He forced her to renounce her Judaism and to raise his children.

Only after he died was Menashe able to flee Iraq. She found her way to an Israeli consulate in Europe and told them she was Jewish and wanted to join her family in Israel. Her parents have already passed away, but the Interior Ministry contacted her siblings and verified her story.

She is expected to arrive in Israel any day now, much to the uncontainable excitement of her brothers and sisters.

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