Nadene Goldfoot
- On January 3, 2022, Houthis seized a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship Rawabi off the coast of Yemen on Sunday night. According to a Saudi-led coalition, the ship was carrying medical supplies used to operate a Saudi hospital on the island of Socotra and was sailing near Hodeida when it was attacked. According to the Houthis, the ship was carrying weapons. A crew of 11, seven Indians and 1 each from Ethiopia, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines were detained by the Houthis.
- On January 17, 2022, three fuel trucks exploded, killing three people, and a fire broke out near Abu Dhabi Airport on Monday in what Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group said was an attack deep inside the United Arab Emirates Three people were killed and six wounded when three fuel tanker trucks exploded in the industrial Musaffah area near storage facilities of oil firm ADNOC, state news agency WAM said. It said those killed were two Indians and a Pakistani.
Who are the Houthis? The Houthi movement, officially called Ansar Allah and colloquially simply Houthis, is an Islamist political and armed movement that emerged from Saada in north Yemen in the 1990s.
The Houthi movement is a predominately Zaidi Shia force, whose leadership is drawn largely from the Houthi tribe. Shi'a Islamists are predominantly Iranians. The Houthis are backed and instigated by Iran. The ruler, or imam, was both a secular ruler and a spiritual leader. Their kingdom fought and lost a border war with Saudi Arabia in the 1930s. 
The Yemen Civil War is in its 7th year and people are hungry. Who can farm and supply stores? They're all fighting.
The Houthis have a complex relationship with Yemen's Sunni Muslims; the movement has discriminated against Sunnis, but also recruited and allied with them. The Houthis took part in the 2011 Yemeni Revolution by participating in street protests and by coordinating with other opposition groups. In 2014–2015, Houthis took over the government in Sanaa with the help of the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, and announced the fall of the current government of Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. Houthis have gained control of most of the northern part of Yemen's territory and since 2015 have been resisting the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen that claims to seek to restore the internationally recognized Yemeni government to power.
Ofra Haza, born in 1957 died in 2000.
Of Yemenite-Jewish heritage, Haza's music is known as a mixture of traditional and commercial singing styles, fusing elements of Eastern and Western instrumentation, orchestration and dance-beat. She became successful in Europe and the Americas; during her singing career, and earned many platinum and gold discs. In Israel, Haza was an influential cultural figure who helped to popularize Mizrahi culture. It was sad that it was the Western culture of drugs that killed her.
Bat-Sheva Ofra Haza was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, to Mizrahi Jewish parents from Yemen who immigrated to Israel. She was the youngest of nine children (six sisters and two brothers) to Yefet and Shoshana Haza. They were raised in a Masorti household in the Hatikva Quarter, then an impoverished neighborhood of Tel Aviv.
At the age of 12, Haza joined a local theater troupe, and manager Bezalel Aloni noticed her singing talent. He spotlighted her in many of his productions, and later became her manager and mentor. At 19, she was Israel's foremost pop star, and music journalists retrospectively described her as "the Madonna of the East".Haza served two years in the Israel Defense Forces.
Yemen is known as the place where Ofra Haza's parents came from, the beautiful Israeli singer of the 1980's. She was my idol. Here are 10 of her best songs. My favorite is Jerusalem of Gold. The Jews that lived here left for Israel.
Bedouin tribes had been converting to Judaism beck in 390-420 when Abu Karib Assad ruled and converted himself. A few other Yemenite rulers had been Jewish.
Shiite rule was established in the 10th century. The non-Muslims, Jews became 2nd class citizens under all sorts of different rules from the others. They suffered all sorts of persecutions in the late history.
By 1948, there were 18,000 Jews from Yemen in Palestine. From 1949 to 1950, Israel's Magic Carpet took place when the whole community of Jews in Yemen of about 46,000 were flown to Israel. About 1,400 were still there in Yemen after the lift.
The Houthis had their own bone to pick with the ruling party to start a Civil War. But then they're being backed by Iran by all but food.
https://www.myisraelimusic.com/10-essential-ofra-haza-songs/
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houthi_movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofra_Haza
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