Pakistan Allows One Citizen to Register as a Jew for First Time Since 1980s
Fischel Benkhald, born Faisal Benkhald in Karachi, became the first Pakistani citizen in decades to officially declare his Jewish identity to the state.
Benkhald’s mother is Jewish, but he was registered as Muslim due to his father’s religion. After being orphaned as a teenager, he was raised by a religious Muslim uncle. “I studied Islam in childhood, but I never practiced it as a religion,” Benkhald told The Express Tribune, a Pakistani English-language newspaper.
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