Moshe Ya'ish al-Nahari

Who was Moshe Ya'ish al-Nahari?

Moshe Ya'ish al-Nahari was a Jewish Hebrew teacher and kosher butcher in Raydah, Yemen, who was murdered by Abdul Aziz Yahya Al-Abdi, a Muslim Yemenite and former Yemeni Air Force fighter pilot who accosted him near his home demanding that he convert to Islam. Al-Nahari's attacker subsequently boasted of the killing and the prosecution demanded the death penalty. The court ruled that the attacker was mentally unstable and ordered him to pay damages. In the subsequent appeals case, however, al-Abdi was sentenced to death. The murder of al-Nahari was the first of its kind in at least fifteen years.