Story highlights Born in the 1950s in the western city of Herat, Simentov moved to Kabul during the Soviet invasion in the early 1980s for the capital's then relative stability. For decades, Zebulon Simentov refused to leave Afghanistan -- surviving a Soviet invasion, deadly civil war, brutal rule by the Taliban and the US-led occupation of his homeland. But enough is enough for Afghanistan's last Jew, and the prospect of the Taliban's return has him preparing to say goodbye. "Why should I stay? They call me an infidel," Simentov told AFP at Kabul's only synagogue, housed in an old building i...