Libyan Jew returns home after 44 years of exile

02.10.2011                      04.Tischrei. 5772                      Fasten Gedaliah

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Libyan Jew returns home after 44 years of exile

Now that Gadhafi is gone, Daniel Gerbi wants to help interim Libyan leaders rebuild the lost Libya of his childhood and foster the type of religious tolerance between Jews and Muslims that exists in other parts of the Maghreb such as Morocco.

In the walled old city of Tripoli, Libya's independence flag pokes through crumbling buildings and a gang of children wielding toy pistols tear through dusty alleyways.
In these run-down streets stands the empty, faded peach-colored Dar Bishi synagogue….