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There are around three hundred thousand Jews who are originally from Kurdistan and now are Israeli citizens. They are still keeping their Kurdish traditions and the older generation of them speaks Kurdish as well. They have their own Kurdish clubs, organizations, Kurdish song and music groups and even they wear national Kurdish dresses. At the time that the Kurdish people was exposed to chemical weapons or genocide by the occupiers of Kurdistan, ten thousands of the Kurdish Jews in Israel demonstrated against such oppression, protested and pressed the Israeli government in order to help the Kurdish people. After the freedom of south Kurdistan many Jews of Kurdish origin visit Kurdistan as tourists or visit the graves of their family members and relatives in Kurdistan.