Dr Mansour Israil, the grandson of an Iraqi Jew who settled in Sudan and whose family later converted to Islam, gives an interview with AFP outside his home in the neighbourhood once known as "the Jewish quarter" in Omdurman, the Sudanese capital's twin city across the Nile river, on February 18, 2021. - The Jewish community in Sudan was one of the smallest in the Middle East, but it, like those of other Arab states, dwindled in the latter half of the 20th century, as tensions surrounding the 1948 creation of Israel permeated the region. Like elsewhere in the Arab world, Sudanese Jews bore the brunt of growing anti-Israel sentiment amid conflict with the Jewish state. Decades later, their descendants see a recent rapprochement between their country and Israel as an opportunity to connect with their origins. (Photo by ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP)