Opinion People walk at Martyrs’ Square in the early hours of Friday afternoon in Tripoli, Libya, February 5, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Hazem Ahmed The Libyan Jewish community was one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities, with some historians tracing the Jewish settlement there as far back as the 4th century BCE, and the earliest synagogue in Sirte having been built in 10 BCE. In 1911, there were approximately 21,000 Jews in the country, largely based in Tripoli, in the northwest, and a smaller number in Benghazi, in the northeast. By 1941, 25% of Tripoli’s population remained Jewish, and there were 44...