Gideon Moshe Sa'ar is an Israeli politician currently serving as Israel's Foreign Minister. Sa'ar was first elected to the Knesset as a member of Likud in 2003, serving until 2014. During that period,
Sa'ar in 2024
Sa'ar addresses Likud's Central Committee in 2010
Sa'ar with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in December 2024
Sa'ar with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in September 2025
Bukharan Jews, also known as Bukharian Jews, are the Mizrahi Jewish sub-group of Central Asia that dwelt predominantly in what is today Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan. The group
Gideon Sa'ar
…a brother and a sister. His father was a doctor, while his mother was a teacher. Sa'ar's mother Bruriah was born in Israel to a seventh-generation Bukharian Jewish family, whose ancestors arrived during the Ottoman Empire. His father Shmuel Serchensky (Заречанский in Cyrillic) was born in Argentina in an Ashkenazi…
Jews from Mashad, Iran and Jews from Soviet Uzbekistan meeting in Bukhara, c. 1930s
Bukharan Jewish girl, c. 1860s
Rabbi Shimon Hakham, the great-grandson of Rabbi Yosef Maimon
Bukharan Jewish family in Jerusalem, 1909