Ethnicities of Israel: Persian/Iranian Israelis 

My grandfather is a persian jew and he lovessss persian culture, he love persian musicians, he loves the language and the history, he adores everything that is persian related

I can always see how happy he is when he tells me how he met Iranians/persians in other countries and talked to them

@@cookiecook6784 There is something about the Persian culture and heritage which is unique. People with different ethnicities, different religions, different mother tongues keep their original identities but are united and proud of their Persian culture and heritage, enjoying each others company speaking in Farsi. Parsi or Farsi (Arab conquerors couldn’t pronounce p) connects peoples by their hearts regardless of their differences. That’s why it has been kept alive after Islam and it was not replaced by Arabic language or dialect like what happened in other historically rich Muslim countries including Egypt. I don’t say it because Farsi or Persian language is my mother tongue, but historically “ghand e Parsi or the sweet Parsi” had connected millions as it was a literature delicacy, official language, and language of the courts from the Moghul empire in India to Ottoman Empire at some point. It would be a lie if I tell you that there has never been discrimination against minorities in the history of the Persia or today’s Iran. But we all know that if the Persian culture is the crown, contribution of the minorities are its priceless jewels. If it was not because of non Muslims Persians, the Persian music would be disappeared in the first century after Islam because singing or playing music was forbidden for Muslims under Islamic rules. The first printing machine was brought to Persia by an Armenian years before it was introduced to Ottoman Empire. If I can communicate with you in English or French, it is because of dedication and endless efforts of an Iranian Jew who wrote the first dictionary both English and French to Farsi. By many generations including mine, the dictionary was called “Haim” which is his name. I have said all to express how I feel connected to and proud of your grandfather :)

@@MegaMandi1978 yes, I read about middle eastern history and I always find it fascinating how almost all countries that fell under the control of the Arabs became arab countries, lost their identity, language and culture, expect from persians who managed to keep their identity... even today I hear about Iranians who'd like to fight against the Islam rule and go back to their original religion zoroastrianism

@@cookiecook6784 It is expected that under oppressive religious government people become more secular if not converting :) Apparently, like Judaism, Islam has also influenced byZoroastrianism somehow, not only philosophy but many aspect of the Islamic culture and art have been influenced by Persian culture in old Persia and today’s Iran. For example, the famous mosques in most of the Muslim countries have white marble walls with green tile dome. But the mosques in Persia, Iran and the middle Asian countries have khaki wall with blue or turquoise tile dome some with elaborated designs of the garden which is influenced by Persian culture and Zoroastrianism and represents the sacred place where you leave the material world (the earth, the khaki walls) and reach the heavens or skies (blue tile dome with design of garden). Interestingly, you will find similar beautiful colored tiles with design of a garden inside the one of the famous synagogues of the Tehran. That’s what I mean by keeping the unique identity but staying proud of Persian culture and heritage. The Iranian Jews do not separate themselves or avoid using the colored tile art for the synagogue because it has been used by Muslims for the mosque. Muslims do not claim such art as theirs either. This is Persian tile art :)

They are Jew.

disgraceful

​@@az6802you're disgraceful to the humanity

You mean Zionists are the enemies, not Jews.

The Pashtuns are decendants from King Saul. Bani from Isreal.

Naweed sediq you can search on RU-vid Afghanistan Jewish you will see them

hopefully one day you can come! you will love it i promise

i love you

Jews are treated fairly still till this day in Iran, there’s no oppression and persecution off them also they have religious freedom!!! Sometimes it’s dirty politics that gets in the way!!!

Maybe we can go visit together. I’m Persian as well and never been. I don’t blame these people, because for a long time I didn’t want to visit, but now I would love to ✌️

I agree , esp if they were not born there and worse if their parents were not born there. I figured that gentleman ,HAIM was rather irritated by the personal questions telling him to take off his glasses really irked him because he valued his privacy (not to mention if his 'girlfriend ' might be watching at a later stage this videoclip) and life in the military just sparked a short fuse in him 9:05 . 'Why all these questions ? Are you working for the Iranian Intelligence's ' ?

yeah, 4500 people. All the Arab countries are judenrein after ethnically cleansing all their jews.

Nadav Gabay צ

in all asia, not just the middle east. after iran it's india.

u r fucked in the head , disgusting zionism=nazism

amir hossein zionism is national liberation of the Jewish people in the Jewish holy and ancestral land. Islam = worse than nazism

Hey! I've seen some of your answers on Quora! I recognized the name. Shalom :)

IranianDude shut up koskesh

Much love from Israel! Love our Persian culture and it's values!! Hope that one day we'll be able to visit each other's country and that Iran will get over this difficult time.. prayers and much love goes to you guys :)

We r culturly Iranian's and Israelis And we prowd of that

FUCK OFF WITH YOUR SATAN WORSHIP.

Hm. I'm of Persian descent but I'm from the US. My ancestors were ethnic Persians, but from all over the middle east, and Europe surprisingly, usually assimilated with the culture of that country and weren't Muslims either. Don't know the last people in my family that were from Iran, but they all spoke Farsi and kept iranian culture (to some extent)

ohhhh my God

Cyrus The Great hey brother, why was your comment hidden as spam??

***** Then obviously, you haven't assimilated and should leave the Netherlands. It's people like you who give rise to right wing nationalism. You were born and raised in the Netherlands, so by nationality you're Dutch, but by ethnicity you're Iranian.

***** then my friend you need to get your facts right. The persian jewish community is an exceptional case as they decend from those jews who willingly decided to stay in Persia rather than go back to israel when Kourosh took babylone. they have been part of the many ethnicities that forms persia for as long as Persia itself exists (2500 years)

Yes, people still celebrate Norouz in Israel, but (as you can see from the video) more and more people are of mixed background and the popularity of the holiday has declined a bit. But it's celebrated by Iranian, Azeri, Kurdish, and other Jews from those areas.

***** Dont say that Israel is evil and give Judaism a bad name

***** israel and true persian are friends, islam does not speak for iranians. or at least real iranians who aren´t traitors. I´m an persian and I love israel and will always support it. the arab mullahs and violent islam does not speak for me or any other real persian

Who the fuck says arabs like Iran no one dose they are responsebel for conflict in Syria Yemen iraq bahrain gulf country's are even willing to side with isreal if if they go to war with isreal

I'm an Iranian Jew, most of the hate that's been directed to me hasn't been from Iranians, it's been from others

so true :-)

Persians and Jews are both gentle, noble, kind...

Sí, es cierto. Dos bellas naciones. Los persas no tienen la culpa de la actitud de su gobierno.

Persian people in general are very nice. Right now in America (right or wrong) Muslims are viewed negatively but when talking about Persian Muslims, I've never heard anything bad. Warm, friendly people that love their culture but also have found a way to assimilate without abandoning the mother culture.

MrNice Guy Yes, I know only one (half) Persian guy, he was my lab partner, but he's the most awesome guy ever! Seriously, Persians in the West seem to be really open-minded people!

Exactly

That goes for Israel too. Israel is a fascist country.

Great comment.

TonyBanderas do you even know the definition of fascism?

ikanian Allahu Akbar, long live Khamenei✌🏼🇮🇷🇵🇸

There is no Persians in Afghanistan lol.

Are you Tajiks, Hazara or Farsiwan Persian?

Afghan Lion yes there are. There are like 14 different ethnicities in Afghanistan

@@user-fq7wr2vt5c hahah what is the difference between farsiwan, persian, parthian, bactherian.....??? We are eastern Iranian. Old Iran the Great Iran......!!!

@@user-fq7wr2vt5c text me your number that I could make you understand that they are from old persian descents.....

Worshiping fire traitor

So true.

Because its not the culture, its a foregin ideology that took over Iran. The ancient persians let the jews return to their homeland in judea from the Babylon expulsion with cyrus edict, they let the jews rebuild their holy temple in jerusalem. They were zionists. The iranian regime is opressing the culture and inhabitants of iran

Keep quite They can't be our friends !!!

Afghanistan was a lovely country , the west ruined it and it broke m'y heart

No one wants to be your friend my caliph commrade

@@JERIMORCK007 what is their fault?they born on the same land just like you.is it a sin to be born as a jew in afganistan?

respect and love back from israel !

Probably just that there’s a lot of Moroccan jews in Israel!

@Walonzo Santana me either

@Walonzo Santana i belive we are the majority of israel

Because Morrocans are Deep

Walonzo Santana u kidding?! Moroccans are second largest ethnicity in Israel. They are like the common Israeli

The more free you are the better the smile.

Bless you for the truth. I'm in the U.S. My grandparents never locked their doors. Crime, terrorism, racism, hatred -only in the large northeastern cities. Now it is everywhere. Americans HATE each other. As a boy I thought Israel the worst place to be, its good now to see all the smiles. Maybe we can get ours back some day.

Who the hell are you, you moron? Persian? Those who were called Persian thrived on diversity and respect for other cultures. They would be shaking in their graves to know some ignorant inbred like you calls himself a Persian. Besides, the country is called Iran and we are Iranian not Persian. Get some education and learn to respect people, or stop trolling the net giving Iranians a bad name.

And the jews have gondi

Gondi is bomb

I'm persian and I don't like ghormeh sabzi

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That makes no sense

Are you still ridicilously funny as 5 years ago ? 😂

guy at 7:20 looks EXACTLY like my lebanese cousin.

Beni Habibi I knew there were Jews in Afghanistan at one time but didn't know they were the Pashtuns. I'll have to check that out, interesting stuff. Thanks.

Beni Habibi That's actually a myth. The Pashtuns are indigenous to the region en genetic testing has proved that they are largely connected to the Iranic peoples around them (Tajiks, Baluchis, etc.). It is true that some claim Hebrew heritage, but that is quite easy to explain. When the Arab muslim armies conquered the region, they needed myths in order to Islamise the indigenous population. One of the tactics was to connect the conquered peoples (in this case the Pashtuns) to prominent peoples in the Koran. Well, few take a more prominent role than Jews. All but one of the Islamic prophets were Jews. In a similar fashion some Islamic peoples claim Macedonian heritage, as a result of Alexander the Great's mentioning in the Koran. I'm sure that there has been some mixing, as Jews have lived in the region for centuries, but to say that Pashtuns are Jews is historically and scientifically false. That said, there are obviously many cultural similarities, as both Jews (and especially Persian/Afghan Jews) and Pashtuns/Afghans are 'eastern' peoples.

myusername sucksheaps You should look up the Israeli-Palestinian actor Ashraf Barhom. When I saw the dude in the video, I first thought that was him. Crazy resemblance.

Afghan what you said makes a lot of sense.actually. could you send me some links to this genetic testing you were talking about?

Shame on you for calling yourself a Muslim.

@@xm1614, this is the proof that islam is judophobic religion) Bcs judaism=zionism

@@LalaLa-ze7kv no its not. Plenty of orthodox rabbis are against Zionism. The founders of Zionism were secular or atheist, not proper jews at all

​. Zionism is thousands of years old. It is ironic that were mentioning this speaking of iran, the ancient achamedian persian empire let the jews come back to judea, rebuild thier nation and rebuild the holy temple. This is called "return to zion". How is that no zionism ? Zionism and judaism is oen and the same ! Historicaly, culturaly. A jew that tells you otherwise simply dosent follow judaism or isnt knowlegable of the history of the jewish people.

+Azzy N as is persian-russian

Beni Habibi does russian refer to Bukharian?

Azzy N no, Russian as in eastern Europe (although Bukharian as well)

ZionistPatriot You are not a real Zionist. We created Israel for all Jews, not to hate one another, but to reestablish our home and nation in the place where it emerged and where it was destroyed 1,900 years ago. If you hate other Jews because of their origin you have no place in Israel, and you are NOT a Zionist. You betray in everything Zionism stands for.

אני יהודי וציוני ואת\ה לא תחליט\י לי מה אני..

Hope all the Iranians will think like you.

May a leader like the the spirit of the Shah with his love to the people & the country will lead you again & our alliance will return as should be.

fuck u

@עומרי גהאנמא NO

are you Christian?

babak asaseh We do try to forget him (he was found guilty of rape)

and the general of the israeli army (Shaul Mufaz)

Channel he's maybe corrupt but he is for sure not a rapist, his wife (the actual prime minister) would kill him if he will only touch another woman.

@@tFighterPilot And was sent to jail by a muslim-palestinian judge!

@@reuterromain1054 Christian, actually.

Are you crazy?

@@mahdin6038 No because I think you are crazy

every israili is well in his country is good but palastine for palastinains arab land occupied put that in mind

Mosavi Gilani Personally, I like Israel. I don't mind the normal arabs, but the crazy ones are a no no.

Mosavi Gilani All the Muslim countries where dictators were removed are worse off now.

Mosavi Gilani I already know all that, you're telling me nothing new. Sadam was good, Asad is good, Gadaffi was good, Mubarak was good. Those countries needed to have an iron fist to keep them in line. But one mans failure is another mans gain. Suck it up.

Mosavi Gilani The USA doesn't need to attack Iran, Russia or North Korea, because they have military bases surrounding all of them already. So if they try anything they'll get fucked to pieces.

Mosavi Gilani That's the whole point of creating wars, because then you have an excuse to set up military bases.

***** The one you are referring to ,according to historians, is Xerxes. Xerxes is what the Greeks called HIM. In Iranian his name is Khashayarsha. But historians identify Ahasuerus and Xerxes as the same king.

+Farshad1975 .. "Her Highness", jeddi migi? Seriously, that whore Esther was NOT Persian to begin with. She was pimped by her uncle Mordechai to Khashayarsha (the worst king in Persian history), who eventually killed the real Persian Queen Vashti, after all the dirty games done by Esther and Mordechai. It's sad Persians do not know how to respect our own history. We overthrew Shah MohammadReza, and brought ourselves a curse called ayatolshit khomaini! Likewise, we neglect Queen Vashti, and praise a Jewish whore called Esther! Che begam dige? Vaqean heyfe!

maa1441 It IS a shame that you are unable to make a point without using profanities. Before you learn your history, you probably should learn what words to use when you open your mouth..

maa1441 Apparently your sources and their "facts" have had a noticeable effect on you, I am not gonna argue regarding your sources, since this is not my field. Second, you don't need to be "Persian" by blood in order to be Iranian. We have had several non-persians in the Achaemenid royal house, i.e. you can not use that as an excuse to degrade ppl, we are not Nazis. Also as you know, Iranian history is being distorted all the time. You should focus on those who disort the recent Iranian history by dragging the good name of the Pahlavis into the mud, not fly of the handle cause Vashti got killed and got replaced by a "whore". What should anger you is that your countries recent history is being distorted as we speak and fed to the public as fact, via BBC, VOA and Hollywood (Alexander, 300 and Argo are their latest multi billion projects). You are probably one those who sat in the theatres, clapping and cheering while watching those.

dontcallmejon Story? True or not, it is still more believable than the Adam and Eve one, taking place 6000 years ago..lol Or Moses splitting the Redsea (or The Deadsea) in half or Muhammed Splitting the moon. But guess what, more than 4 billion believes the Adam and Eve story as non-fictional. These ppl call themselves Muslims and Christians etc......

+luis pepino They were less than 500, most of the Afghan Jews came from Iran though. But we definetly don't like jews, there is one jew in afghanistan and he is currently in hiding.

Paul Adonia too long, did not read it LOL

+luis pepino Oy vey wid the arguing and de fighting and de banning of de Afghan...

Are you still talking ghool? i thought i shut you up you dumb murtad. And bacha bazi is defeintely part of your culture, its practisined in the north and panjsher where there are low number of pashtuns you dumbass. Tajiks are not persian and khorosan was never a kingdom, so how can you rule an area that was never even a real place? Your a fucking ghool, everything that comes out of your racist tajik mouth is seriously laughable.

Rostam Amirzadeh Really that's all you have to say after exposing your hell hole of a nation? Lets realize something, everyone hates Iran and Persians, from Afghans to Arabs and even Americans and Turks. Your despised by everyone especially your neighbours on how you treat minorities like afghans in your country. Your nation has no proper human rights concerning women and you stone and jail people who speak against the government. So who really is the violent one here?

my best friend is kochin jew :) and his girl cousin was my crush on high school XD

Haha... :)

He's already done it, you can have a look .

It is probably very hard to interview them because they are only a few thousand in number while other groups like Persians number in the hundreds of thousands or millions.

Love from half cochin Jew. India is great

zAIN Zikria ..Allah aur Rasool *s.w. Ki Lakho Lanatain Tum Per aur Tumare Ma Baap Per ... ALLAH kRE tUM rOZ E mEHSHER Ki Din Inn Yahoodio K Sath Uthaye Jawo .. AaMEEN

vastu like aur allah aur uske rasool saww ki laanatein hon is pakistan par jo terrorism banata hai aur innocent mulims ko maarta rehta hai afghanistan bangladesh aur pata nahi kaha kaha terrorism activities karta rehta hai laanat ho is pakistan par allah karay toot jaye jaldi aur eliminate hojaye terrorism humesha keliye ameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen summa ameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen

Morrocan jews are the second biggest jewish-national group in Israel, and Persians are also one of the biggest. plus both are very alike and tend to be closer, not all in marriage but in general, morrocans and persians in israel tend to be friends more than others.

if they hadn't gone against the revolution and the islamic state (by going to israel thereby opressing palestinians) they could go back. Sigh! thats the consequences of their bad decisions...

MashedApplePie I feel bad for the iranian people. They have to live in an islamic shit hole. If they could get rid of their sick oppressive islamic government, someday things might change. Until then best to get the hell out if you can. The Jews that were able to get to Israel were very lucky indeed.

this is some bulshit

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_(Israeli_singer)

there is a lot and there are usually very beutiful :p

+wheelinthesky600 LoL

hahahaha

Is this really true? I heard they were converts for the most part.

@@TheAfghan72 Lol yes it’s true and any historian would tell you the same. In Iran, the Jews did not accept converts, it was near impossible like how the Jewish community operated in Syria. Its actually the other way around, millions of ethnic Jews in Iran converted out of it over time. Also, they have done genetic testing and Iranian Jews have distinct haplogroups and dna clustering than other Iranians

true, Israelies allways complaining about that but the goverment and the mayors don't give a shit... (I think it's also because there isn't someone that will clean it, no one in Israel want to work at street-cleaning...)

@Volk Sadulaev IYI they sent the new one 18% caucasus and the rest iran . also most first kurdish but about 40% Caucasus and you can check in GEDmatch web . Caucasus mean Anatolia also .my id a114871. I didnot said i looks your people also. I looks most iranian and kurds and i proud. which country you from in caucasus ?

persian in israel mostly mixed with persian. the same with another ethnics now in new generatin for past 20 year mosttly mixed/

that's the first guy (7:15) he said that too and i dont blame him, his looks are good enough to turn anyone gay.

Which one? Lol There are two people wearing them in the video lol😆

the guy in the yellow shirts,his shades on his head

+raspie what about the guy at 3:28 😊😍

he gives ezra from indie/alternative band vibe doesnt he?

+raspie not sure what you mean. What's the band's name?

Ethnic language of Jews is Hebrew. Just because we were displaced to other countries doesn’t change our ethnicity

Ain;t just Israelis. The best are Spanish and Italians for letting you speak their language. German speakers always insist on English. They despise English speakers who can speak German.

I was an American soldier stationed in Germany. We had courses on base and I am gifted with foreigner languages, especially when I was 20 AND English has German roots and I speak Spanish for the Latin roots AND I was already pretty fluent in Yiddish from home. I knew that I had MADE it when the most fluent English speaking Germans would answer me in German. I speak to them everyday in my job. Some want to practice their English and cop the Israeli attitude, however most do not and we get a lot of emails directly in German. But in this case I don't care, because they are customers and indirectly pay my salary..English they want? English they'll get. It's the Tomer's of Israel whom I just don't appreciate. The attitude is like "if you don't speak our exotic language perfect, with no accent and fast, we just can't deal with it, so listen to my did you GOT, did you SAW, etc. (and a host of other glaring errors they make in the English they are so proud of). BTW I just watched the video again, and Tomer's attitude still pisses me off. The statement always is "Oh, you can speak English". The answer is: I know I CAN speak English, it is my native language, but I prefer to speak Hebrew". This is one of main reasons WHY I don't plan on going back for retirement. If at age 62 I just can't totally master the language (and I am pretty good with little accent) I just don't want to go back. I never want to be exposed to that superior, condescending attitude again!

I just watched it again, and Tomer's attitude makes me really angry.... Would you think about editing it out? I hate, absolutely hate his attitude and it takes away from this being an interview with Israelis. It is because of people like him that I didn't learn Hebrew better.

They think that Iranian people are like the government , I'm Moroccan i had the same image but after visiting Iran , woow the Iranians are great so kind so open so hospitable 😍😍😍 lol I can understand why in that video they are a lot of Moroccan Persian Jews we are exactly the same in term of feeling and behavior

Snake

you would track Palestinian blood inside our country. you are no longer welcome.

No lol. No fear :-)

Yasss

You can't blame them, they were born in Israel and don't have a daily connection to Persian tradition

Because the Moroccans are lying so they are less Arab.

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I wish more people thought like you.

Wow. Not many dare say that. Such sad times. I cry for all our children