Tribesmen gathered on Wednesday to protect a Jewish woman who left her house, embraced Islam and married Hani Ali Sarran belonging to an area neighboring Amran's Raydah – the second place in which Yemeni Jews live.  

The tribesmen's move came in an effort to prevent a possible clash with security authorities and decided later to extradite the woman.

An informed source told Yemen Post that Interior Ministry threatened tribes to launch armored campaign to restore the woman by force, after the woman's family resorted to the American Embassy's officials who in their turn sent a letter to the Ministry of Interior asking them to interfere especially when the woman was allegedly forced to marry Sarran.

Over 3,000 tribesmen gathered from different parts of Amran governorates to protect the Jewish lady and her husband who sought refugee in Sheikh Saleh Sarran's house – an area's renowned Sheikh. Sarran later interfered with official authorities and met with Amran's governor Noman Dweed and informed him about the circumstances.

Amran-based journalist Yahya Al-Thulia told Yemen Post that the Jewish lady along with her husband met the governor and informed him she embraced Islam at her will and willingly married Hani Sarran. This meeting helped to ease the pressure by government authorities aiming to extradite the Jewish lady.

Special sources also mentioned that the Jewish woman works as a teacher in Al-Shibzi school meant for the Jewish community affiliates in Raydah following  a six-year sponsored scholarship to America.

The same sources added that Fayez Al-Jaradi, a Jewish enthusiastic youth and Al-Shebzi headmaster, threatened to kill the Jewish woman after the latter embraced Islam. While Sa'eed Al-Ammar, a Jewish cleric, accepted the marriage process, Al-Jaradi rejected and informed the matter to the American Embassy.

This issue is reported as the first case among the Jewish community still living in Yemen; wherein a Jewish woman embraces Islam and marries a Muslim guy.