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Le Kef, Al Kef, El Kef is a city in north western Tunisia and the capital of the Kef Governorate. Wikipedia. photos .Jewish history. [Feb 2013]

Vandals desecrate Jewish graves in Tunisia. "For the second time in a month, vandals desecrated Jewish graves in Tunisia. On February 4, unidentified individuals smashed and overturned ten gravestones in Kef in Western Tunisia, according to the Tunisia News Network. ... The last Jew left Kef in 1984, according to Dreuz.info, a French new site. It quoted Yves Kamhi, a Jewish lawyer, as saying some human skeletons were found outside their graves. ... Some 1,700 Jews live in Tunisia, according to the European Jewish Congress. They numbered 100,000 in 1948." photogrraph. [February 2013]