(2)Yemen celebrates national day at Aichi Expo

(2)Yemen celebrates national day at Aichi Expo

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Local Japanese students wear ethnic Yemenite clothing on the national day for Yemen on May 23 at the World Exposition site in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture.

Israeli musician revives old Yemenite melodies with self-made instruments

STORY: Israeli musician revives old Yemenite melodies with self-made instruments DATELINE: June 18, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:08 LOCATION: Jerusalem CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. Eyal el Wahab playing his instrument 2. El Khat video clip 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): EYAL EL WAHAB, Musician 4. More of Eyal playing 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): EYAL EL WAHAB, Musician 6. Eyal making instruments 7. Recycled instruments 8. El Khat video clip 9. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): EYAL EL WAHAB, Musician 10. Eyal making instruments 11. El Khat video clip 12. Eyal playing instruments STORYLINE: Eyal el Wahab has been playing guitar since five. Later in life, he became a cellist. Four years ago, he felt he was missing something in his musical journey, something about his family roots in Yemen. When the Wahab family and some other 50,000 Yemeni Jews emigrated to Israel shortly after the Jewish-majority country's establishment in 1948, most of them were in dire conditions. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of their descendants in Isra

(2)Yemen celebrates national day at Aichi Expo

(2)Yemen celebrates national day at Aichi Expo

NAGAKUTE, Japan - Local Japanese students wear ethnic Yemenite clothing on the national day for Yemen on May 23 at the World Exposition site in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture. (Kyodo)