Fishel Benkhald, Guardian of Pakistan’s Jewish Cemeteries

Pakistan, which once boasted a small but active Jewish community, is now home to at most a handful of Jews, who generally conceal their identities due to widespread anti-Semitism. Faisal Benkhald, who prefers to go by his Jewish first name of Fishel, has dedicated himself to preserving and restoring the country’s Jewish cemeteries, most of which have fallen into disrepair. About one in Karachi, Erica Lyons writes: