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After decades in exile, Syria's Jews visit Damascus

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Joseph and Henry Hamra fled Syria in the 1990s after then- Syrian president Hafez al-Assad lifted a travel ban on the country's historic Jewish community.

Virtually all of the few thousand Jews in Syria promptly left, leaving less than 10 in the Syrian capital.

They met with Syria 's deputy foreign minister at the ministry, now managed by caretaker authorities.