There was essentially no Jewish population in Sana'a until the Shia insurgency broke out in in northern Yemen in 2004.
Po ustanovitvi Izraela leta 1948 je približno 49.000 (od 51.000 - ocena) Judov odšlo v Izrael, skoraj 10.000 iz Sane (glej knjigo v angleškem jeziku "Jews and Muslims in lower Yemen: a study in protection and restraint, 1918–1949").