A Look at Tunisia's Largest Indigenous Religious Minority
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Boys walk past closed shops on the beginning of Shabbath, after sunset, at Hara Kbira, the main Jewish neighborhood in the Island of Djerba, southern Tunisia, Oct. 30, 2015. The Jewish community on the resort island of Djerba traces its roots all the way back to Babylonian exile of 586 B.C., and is one of the few communities of its kind to have survived the turmoil around the creation of Israel, when more than 800,000 Jews across the Arab world either emigrated or were driven from their homes.
