Jobar Reconstruction and Synagogue: Questions About Investors and Looting

This is Jobar Synagogue, like Jobar itself.

Many fighters have seen it as they came and went beside it.

And underneath it—what lies beneath is more important than what's beside it.

Al- Assad left no stone unturned in Jobar.

He wiped it out completely. Before the forced displacement in 2018.

The neighborhood and the synagogue have seen the Free Syrian Army, the Rahman Legion, the Assad regime, and later, the blessed Russian forces.

Since 2013, digging beneath the synagogue has never stopped.

The digging operations aimed to reach a cave beneath the synagogue.

From 2017 through 2024, the Turkish press reported seizures of Hebrew and Jewish artifacts in Turkish territory that, according to some press reports, were being smuggled out of Jobar Synagogue.

The official in charge of the affairs of the Mosaic community, Alaa al- Din al- Rujub, tells the public that the looting is still going on today.

Yes, they're still digging beneath the synagogue to search for treasures and buried valuables.

Even now we don't know, we don't know. Right now, we have submitted a request to build a wall around the— synagogue and the school.

All right, to stop the looting and theft.

One of the worrying signs, in some people's view, and nothing more than propaganda, in other people's view. is the post Eddie Cohen applauded, which said they had bought most of the areas around the synagogue in Jobar and a lot of land in Jobar.

Of course, thank God we have Maisa Qabbani, who responded to Cohen and went to Jobar and said it was definitely a street of regime loyalists, of course, and that a bird in the hand is worth ten in the tree.

My people in Jobar. I'm here to answer. I'm here to answer to my name.

The Israeli press had been interested in Jobar from early on and reported specifically on the synagogue in 2013 saying at the time that it had been partially destroyed, and that some of the items had been moved from the synagogue for safekeeping.

So now we have an official Syrian desire for us to love one another and make things easier for one another, and Israeli political and religious interest in Jobar and the church.

Now we come to the issue of Jobar's reconstruction, where the agreement between the residents and the governorate is still at a dead end.

And the unanswered question is: who The investor who will start rebuilding Jobar?

Many names came up. Kushner, the Khayyat brothers, Hamsho.

Lama, several multinational companies. Lama, as Qabbani said, the one we have to go back to because there’s no one else.

He gave us some clues about the mysterious investor.

So he tells me, this gentleman from the board of trustees says to me, “We haven’t met with the investor.”

I said to him, “What do you mean, the investor?

A person who has ten billion like that?”

Six or seven companies that want to do the work.

That’s no small amount. No one can have ten billion to rebuild something like this.

Do you know what ten billion means? Every billion is a thousand million.

Do you know that just half a billion is for clearing the rubble?

And what I’m about to say now is also being said in the video I recorded The state gave up some of its land to please the real estate developer, to raise each homeowner’s share in their house.

The governorate is silent. Before April 2026, The New York Times said that the Khayyat brothers were interested in rebuilding Jobar, and they told the U.S. administration about it.

Part of a series of investments they're planning in Syria.

The governorate is silent. In September 2026, the Jober Board of Trustees said in a statement that the governorate had mentioned a consortium of companies without naming their nationalities or the companies.

The governorate is silent. So let's turn to the strongest and most credible statement from the Khayyat brothers, Ramez and Moataz, in a New York Times investigation where they also said that they were partners with Jared Kushner,

the son-in-law of our dear friend, Trump, working together on projects in Albania, projects stalled by corruption allegations and land ownership disputes.

In that same investigation, Ramez Khayyat said of Kushner: “He's a great man.

We're trying to do something great together.

We're presenting a lot of opportunities.”

He was referring to projects in Syria. In that same investigation, he said they were interested in Jober.

Kushner isn't just Trump's son-in-law. During Trump's first presidency, Kushner was known as the architect of the famous Deal of the Century and one of the biggest supporters of Israel and Zionism.

Let's narrow the focus a little. The Khayyat brothers, Moataz and Ramez, have a third brother.

He is Mohammad, and he heads the real estate development sector at the Syrian Sovereign Fund.

Let's narrow it down further. The Khayat brothers, as you know, are Mohammad Hamsho's sister's sons.

A dear friend to our dear friend, who's trying to whitewash and polish his image.

And whose name was floated early on as the mysterious investor in Jobar.

Of course, using the Khayats' money. Here we return to Qabbani and al- Omari, accused without evidence.

God forbid, in cooperation with Hamsho and trying to whitewash his image.

And providing him medical care, and working with the Khayat family and treating them, too. Forget all that.

There's something some residents of Jobar said as they protested against the governorate's project that caught the eye a little.

Come on, Jew, get out! Come on, Jew, get out!

Come on, Jew, get out! Now let's put our questions together.

Why is the Damascus Governorate keeping the investor's name under wraps, or the consortium's name, despite all the accusations it has been facing for months?

What exactly is the Khayat brothers' connection to the project?

Is the Damascus Governorate and our wise government under pressure, God forbid, and forced to confront the residents?

So that he can push through a project he never started that could change the country’s demographics and give a certain person political influence?

And the most important question: Are the people of Jobar, who own the land, homes, and memories, why are they still asking who will rebuild their homes and what will be left for them?

Because if all the threads lead to Jobar, then the people of Jobar have the right to know who’s holding one end of the thread.

Before we head off to relax, we’re asking ourselves, is there someone who wants to use the same Assad tactic when he told us, “I drove them out of Jobar and emptied it, so now I can do whatever I want with it”?

The belts surrounding the capital. Maybe they no longer have to make them come back and put them in.

Jobar in particular. Yeah, that’s no longer possible.

Jobar is already destroyed. But they need to remove this fine that…

they’re charging for the insults. You can’t know, you know. You know, you know.

We are in Syria freedom. No, how much did you catch, honestly?