Zablon Simintov[Note 1] (Dari/Pashto: زابلون سیمینتوف; Hebrew: זבולון סימן-טוב; born 1959),[5] also known as Zebulon Simentov, is an Afghan Jewish former carpet trader and restaurateur. Between 2005 and his evacuation from Afghanistan to Israel 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 capital city of Kabul.[6][7][8][9] On 7 September 2021, shortly after the Taliban takeover, he left Afghanistan with the help of a private security company organized by Israeli American businessman Mordechai Kahana and Rabbi Moshe Margaretten from the Tzedek Association.[10] A month later, it was discovered that Simentov may not have been the last Jew living in Afghanistan; a distant relative of Simintov, Tova Moradi, fled Afghanistan for Albania in October 2021 with her twenty grandchildren.[11][12][13]
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